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Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Humans

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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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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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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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 am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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