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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
Life
Rejoice
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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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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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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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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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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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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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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