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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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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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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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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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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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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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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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