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Edward Abbey
1/1927-3/1989 (Age at death: 62)

Thoreau of the West, and John Muir and Sophocles, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Rachel Carson, too.

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All partake of the universal divinity: the scorpion and the packrat, the Junebug and the pismire, and even human beings.
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Edward Abbey

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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Edward Abbey

Grown men don't need leaders.
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Edward Abbey

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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Edward Abbey

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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The rancher strings barbed wire across the range, drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds everywhere, drives off the elk and antelope and bighorn sheep, poisons coyotes and prairie dogs, shoots eagle and bear and cougar on sight, supplants the native bluestem and grama grass with tumbleweed, cow sh*t, cheat grass, snakeweed, anthills, poverty weed, mud and dust and flies--and then leans back and smiles broadly at the Tee Vee cameras and tells us h...
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