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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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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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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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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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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 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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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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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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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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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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