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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

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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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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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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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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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