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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Edward Abbey

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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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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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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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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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