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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

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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
Wilderness
Saving
Worth
Left
Thing

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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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