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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
Leather
Farm
Farms
Hats
Boys
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Cowboy

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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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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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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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