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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.

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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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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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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