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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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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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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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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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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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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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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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