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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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Hobbies
Saving
Nothing

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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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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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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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