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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Places
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Beautiful
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Men
Weep
Grown

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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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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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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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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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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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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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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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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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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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