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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

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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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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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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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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