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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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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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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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