Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 15

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• There are no vacant lots in nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Vacant

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

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• Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Pie, Tradition

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

  Edward Abbey

  Feet, Long, Support

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

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• I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Animal, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Littles, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

  Edward Abbey

  Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Ideas, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

  Edward Abbey

  Serious, Too Late, Desperate

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• 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

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• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Writing, Shoes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

  Edward Abbey

  Widows, Golden, Married

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• Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Space, Joy

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• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Moral, Reckless

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

  Edward Abbey

  Texas, Utah, Space

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

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• In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Blood, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

  Edward Abbey

  Dams, Ugly, Canyons

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

  Edward Abbey

  Choices, Desert, Done

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Grows, Wiser

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

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• What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Tree, Giants

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

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• It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

  Edward Abbey

  Good Life, Laughing, Way

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

  Edward Abbey

  Powerful, Knees, Pads

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Real, Men

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

  Edward Abbey

  Littles, Answers, World

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