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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
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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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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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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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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