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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.

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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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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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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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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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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