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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

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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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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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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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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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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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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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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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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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