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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

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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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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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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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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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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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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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