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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Enough
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Girls
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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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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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