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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Fight
Enemy
Passion
Fighting
True
Loyal
Earth
Enemies
Love
Laughter
Marriage

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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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