Edward Abbey Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

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

• In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Vacuums, Antics

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

• I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

• The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Doe, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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