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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Comical
Cowboy
Leather
Farm
Farms
Hats
Boys

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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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