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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
Word
Freedom
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Necessary

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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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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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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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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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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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