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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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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 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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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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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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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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