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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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Belongs
Sun

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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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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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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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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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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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