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Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Edward Abbey moved out west in 1948. In the 1960s and 1970s his essays and novels became rallying cries for radicals in the American environmental movement. Hailed as the “Thoreau of the American West,” Abbey also wrote aphorisms worthy of Franklin, including the following: “To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question."
