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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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