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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Good
Men
World
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Enough
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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