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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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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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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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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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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.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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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.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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