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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
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Freedom
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Life
Individuation
Openness
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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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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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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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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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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