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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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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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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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An empty man is full of himself.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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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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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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