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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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