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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Edward Abbey

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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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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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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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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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