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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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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.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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