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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
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Pictures
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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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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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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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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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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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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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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