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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

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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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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