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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

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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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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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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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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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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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