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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
Heartbreaking
Everywhere
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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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 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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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.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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