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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Friends
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Gamut
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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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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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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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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