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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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