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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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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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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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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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