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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
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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