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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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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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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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