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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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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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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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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 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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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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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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