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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
Edward Abbey
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.
Edward Abbey
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.
Edward Abbey
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
Edward Abbey
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
Edward Abbey
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
Edward Abbey
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
Edward Abbey
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
Edward Abbey
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
Edward Abbey
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
Edward Abbey
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
Edward Abbey
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Edward Abbey
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
Edward Abbey
Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
Edward Abbey
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
Edward Abbey
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Edward Abbey