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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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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Edward Paul Abbey
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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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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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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