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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.

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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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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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