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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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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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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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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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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 been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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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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