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All living things on earth are kindred.

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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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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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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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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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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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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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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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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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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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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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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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