Edward Abbey Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

  Edward Abbey

  Coffee, Evil, Giving

• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

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

• That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Decision, Understanding

• Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Rainbow, Matter

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

• We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, Giving, Superstitions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Jail, Giving

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, 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

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Central Park, Years

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

• Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Giving, Dollars

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

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