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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

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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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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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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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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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