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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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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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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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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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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.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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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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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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