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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.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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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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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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