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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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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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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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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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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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