Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 15

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• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Hobbies, Desert

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

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• The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Enemy, Corporations, Natural

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

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• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

  Edward Abbey

  World, Bigger, Folks

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

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• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Army, Government

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Writing, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sex, Fun

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.123, Macmillan

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• In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

  Edward Abbey

  Routine, Easier, Occasional

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

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Acorns

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• As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

  Edward Abbey

  Cutting, Singing, Said

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cutting, August

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.128, Macmillan

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• The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

  Edward Abbey

  Work, World, Slave

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

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• Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

  Edward Abbey

  Sacrifice, Laughing, Nuance

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

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• The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, American West, Revolution

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

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• Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Finals, May

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

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• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

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

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• A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Virtue, Nevertheless

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

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• We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Space, Phrases

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.55, University of Arizona Press

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• I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

  Edward Abbey

  Magic, Wonder, Evoke

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• Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Focus, Force

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

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Fidelity, Being True

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

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• Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heaven, Kingdoms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Tanks, Rifles

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

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• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Utah, Arizona

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

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• It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Easy

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

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