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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Nebraska
Oklahoma
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Byzantium
Eternity
Landfill
Gold
Plated
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Landfills
Yeats
Dante

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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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.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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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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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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