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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Everyone
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Earth
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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