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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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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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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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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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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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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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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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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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