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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 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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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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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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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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 artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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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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