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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

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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
Knowledge
Reason
Love
Informed
Sympathy
Intelligence
Arms

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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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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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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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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 giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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