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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Heaven
Home
Nirvana
Utopia

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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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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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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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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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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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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