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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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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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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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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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