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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

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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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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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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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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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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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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