It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be a reluctant enthussiast .. A part time crusader, a half hearted fantic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. So get out thereand hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains bag the peaks run the rivers. Breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk bound men and women with their hearts in safe deposit boxes, and their eyes hypnotised by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will out live the bastards!" Edward Abbey
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Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true--I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia....
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It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.
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