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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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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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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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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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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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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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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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