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

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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 are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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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.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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