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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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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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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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