Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 21

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• Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

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  Play, Tyrants, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

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  Dream, Suffering, Ancestor

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

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• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

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  Democracy, Way, Rich

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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  Soul, Ruins, World

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• Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

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  Morning, Coffee, Night

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

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• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

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  Sports, Butterfly, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

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  Lying, World, Sufficient

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

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  Long, Natural, Be Good

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

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• The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

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  Running, Book, East

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

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  Talking, Pay, Accepting

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

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  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

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  Dog, Tick, Critics

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

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  Different, World, Aspect

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

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  Art, Inspire, Nature And Life

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge", p. 57), 1977.

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• Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

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  Would Be, Insult, Life Without Music

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

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• Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

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  Lonely, Heart, Blood

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

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  Country, Home, Men

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

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• Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

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  Believe, Feet, Rocks

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

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• Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

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  Children, Passion, Foundation

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• Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

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  Latin, Government, America

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

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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

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  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

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  Fate, Men, Differences

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

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  Men, Guru, Should

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

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• Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

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  Fate, Pigs, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

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  War, Struggle, Survival

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

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