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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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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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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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