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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Things
Pure
Desert
Arid
Men
Silence
Dust
Recede
Impossible
Weird
Whirling
Light
Golden
Glare
Thought
Solitude
Emptiness
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Brilliant
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Heart
Touch
Intensity
Annihilating
Made
Reach
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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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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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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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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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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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