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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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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
Leather
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Boys
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Cowboy

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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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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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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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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