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A world without open country would be universal jail.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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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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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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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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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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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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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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