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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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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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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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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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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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