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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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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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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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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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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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