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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Anytime
Elegant
Finest
Anywhere
Smile
Laugh
Trope
Sacrifice
Tropes
Laughing
Nuance

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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.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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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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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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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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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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