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Every moment is precious. And precarious.

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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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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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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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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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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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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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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