Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 14

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• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Stupidity, Kind

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

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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Technique, Truth Is

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

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• If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

  Edward Abbey

  Wilderness, Outlaw, Ifs

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

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• Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

  Edward Abbey

  America, People, Democracy

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

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Cowboy, Hands

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

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• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

  Edward Abbey

  Acceptance, Suffering Of Others, Heroic

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

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• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Clouds, June

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

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• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Paradise

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

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• God is love? Not bloody likely.

  Edward Abbey

  God Is Love, Bloody

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

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• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Suffering, Action

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

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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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• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Laughter, Distrust, Wit

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

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fall

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

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• Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

  Edward Abbey

  Machines, Wilderness, Left Behind

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

  Edward Abbey

  Many Friends, Loses

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

  Edward Abbey

  Adults, Earth, Lasts

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

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• I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Reviews, My Own

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Sight

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

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• No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Clerks, Gadgets

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

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• Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

  Edward Abbey

  Charity, Spontaneous, Affront

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

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• If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, Succeed

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Graduates, Best Things

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

  Edward Abbey

  Photography, Jobs, Light

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

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