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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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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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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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