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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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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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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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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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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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