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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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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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Everywhere
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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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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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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