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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.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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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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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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