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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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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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All living things on earth are kindred.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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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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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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