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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Edward Abbey

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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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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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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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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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