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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Wilderness
Saving
Worth

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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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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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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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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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