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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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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
Individuation
Openness
Flowers
Flower
Freedom
Best
Love
Life

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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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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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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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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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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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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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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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