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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

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
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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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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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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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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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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