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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.

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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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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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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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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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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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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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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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