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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Edward Abbey

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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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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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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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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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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