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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Carcass
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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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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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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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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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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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 true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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