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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

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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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Air
Everyone

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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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