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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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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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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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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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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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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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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.
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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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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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