Edward Abbey Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

• By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.341, Big Earth Publishing

• The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

  Edward Abbey

  Age, Flesh, Spirit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

• Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
  basic tyrant of the modern age.

  Edward Abbey

  Tyrants, Age, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

  Edward Abbey

  Spiritual, Food, Cooking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

• By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

  Edward Abbey

  Reflection, Heartache, Joy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

  Edward Abbey

  Aunt, Giving, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Ideas, Smell

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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