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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

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
Concrete
Iron
Grass
Heavy
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Nature
Hard
Prevail

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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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