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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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