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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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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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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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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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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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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.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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