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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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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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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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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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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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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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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 domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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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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