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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

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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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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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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.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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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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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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