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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
Kindred
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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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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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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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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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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