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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

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
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Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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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 always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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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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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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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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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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