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Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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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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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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