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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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America

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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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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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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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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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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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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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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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