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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

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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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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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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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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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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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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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