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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

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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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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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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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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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