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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

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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Wilderness
Surely
Escape
Travel
Possibility
Hope
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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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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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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