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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
Air
Everyone
Nature
Earth
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Sun

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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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