Edward Abbey Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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

• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspiring, Peace, Diversity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Culture, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

• The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Government

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.373, Macmillan

• When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

  Edward Abbey

  Culture, Goering, Revolver

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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