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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Best
Many
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Good
Never
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Places

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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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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 very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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