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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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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 sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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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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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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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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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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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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