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

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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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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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