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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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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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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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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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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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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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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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