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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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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Wisdom

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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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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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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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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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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 living things on earth are kindred.
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