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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

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
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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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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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