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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

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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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Solitude
Discovery
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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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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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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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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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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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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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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