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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

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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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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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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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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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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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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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