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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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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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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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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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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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