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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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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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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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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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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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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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