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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

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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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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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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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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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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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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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