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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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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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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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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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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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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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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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