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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

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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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True
Come
Beware
Wishes
Probably

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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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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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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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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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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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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 society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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