Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 7

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Cost Of Living, Air, Rising

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

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• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Atheist, Imagination

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• A world without open country would be universal jail.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Jail, Would Be

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

  Edward Abbey

  Life Is, Unfair, Fairs

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Sound, Hungry

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

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• Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Sorrow, Why Not

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

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• I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

  Edward Abbey

  Suffering, Despise, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

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• By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

  Edward Abbey

  Reflection, Heartache, Joy

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

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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

  Edward Abbey

  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, May, Want

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

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• Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

  Edward Abbey

  True Love, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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

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• A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

  Edward Abbey

  Joy, Giants, Thirst

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• To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

  Edward Abbey

  Risk, Alive, Safe

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• At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Home, Pride

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Function, North Star

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

  Edward Abbey

  Leadership, Maturity, Men

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

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• All governments require enemy governments.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Enemy

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

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• There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Enemy, Looks

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

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• Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Reality, Other Worlds

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

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• In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Men, Dust

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Ordinary, Half

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

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Sex, Availability

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.341, Big Earth Publishing

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• The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

  Edward Abbey

  Oxygen, Rebel, Looks

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

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