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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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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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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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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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