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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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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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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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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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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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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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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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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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