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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

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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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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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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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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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