Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 11

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

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  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.

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  Song, Eye, Sea

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

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  Believe, Kissing, Belief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

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• What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

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  Freedom, Rights, Discovery

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• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

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  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

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  Cousin, Wall, Thinking

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

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• Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

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  Intellectual, Earth, Care

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

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  War, Technology, Dachau

  "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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• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

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  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

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• In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

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  Military, Believe, Civilization

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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.

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  Choices, Desert, Done

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

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• I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

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  Rose, Tree, Growth

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• Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

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  Beer, Ugly, Chance

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

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• Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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  Mind, Wilderness, Humans

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

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• I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

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  Hero, Army, Men

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• Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

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  Sweet, Democracy, Cures

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• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

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  J Edgar Hoover, Parnell, Shitheads

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

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• Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

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  Mean, Exercise, Doe

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

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• It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

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  Christian, Atheist, Foxholes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

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  Men, Differences, Delight

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

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• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

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• No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

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  Men, Long, Dams

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

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• How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

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  Evil, Easy

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

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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

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  College, London, Mark

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

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• Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

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  Home

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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