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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
Edward Abbey
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
Edward Abbey
It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
Edward Abbey
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Edward Abbey
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
Edward Abbey
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
Edward Abbey
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
Edward Abbey
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.
Edward Abbey
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
Edward Abbey