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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Nation
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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