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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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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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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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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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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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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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