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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Exist
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Lesbian
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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