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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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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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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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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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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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