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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

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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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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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