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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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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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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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