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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Love
Life
Individuation
Openness
Flowers
Flower
Freedom

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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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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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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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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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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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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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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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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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