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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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