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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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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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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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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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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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