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

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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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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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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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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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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