Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 24

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

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  Males, Roosters, Cry

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

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• I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

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  Writing, Selective

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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  School, Unity, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

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  Essentials, Useless, World

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

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• To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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  Forever, Ask Me, Asks

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

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  Kings, White, Tables

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

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• There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

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  Wine, Night, Serious

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

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• We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

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  Character, Men, Race

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

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• One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

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  Couple, Years, Cities

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

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• Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

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  Liberty, Scare, Too Much

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

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• Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

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  Hero, People, Evil

  "Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast".

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• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crude

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

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• Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area.

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  Photography, Data, Quality

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• Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

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  Airplane, Civilization, Flight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

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  Writing, Facts, Fidelity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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  Sea, Critics, Rail

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

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  Yesterday, News, Newspapers

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

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  People, Church, Students

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

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  Economist, Turns, Cleaners

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

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  Horse, West, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

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  Girl, Flower, Enough

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

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• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

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  Character, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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  Girl, Rain, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

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  Want, Rewards, Serious

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

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