Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
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