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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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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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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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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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