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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

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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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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