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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
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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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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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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