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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
Edward Abbey
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
Edward Abbey
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
Edward Abbey
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Edward Abbey
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
Edward Abbey
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
Edward Abbey
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
Edward Abbey
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
Edward Abbey
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
Edward Abbey
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
Edward Abbey
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
Edward Abbey
Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey
Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
Edward Abbey
Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
Edward Abbey
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
Edward Abbey