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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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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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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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