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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

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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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America

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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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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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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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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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