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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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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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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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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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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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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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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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