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Simplicity is always a virtue.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Virtue
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Life
Simplicity

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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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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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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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