Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 16

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• Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

  Edward Abbey

  Scientific Method, Madness, Method

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

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  Jesus, Reason, Spartacus

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

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• Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

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  Men, Once Upon A Time, Good Man

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

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• The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

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  Materialistic, Poor, Mystic

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

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• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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  Positive, Atheist, Men

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

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• Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

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  Book, Fate, People

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

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

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  Doubt, Meals, Sauce

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

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  Art, Savages, Madness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

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  Men, Lucky, Lucky Man

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

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• If the end does not justify the means - what can?

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  Mean, Doe, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

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  Mind, States, Chastity

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

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• The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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  Flower, Light, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

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  Long, Bottom

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

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• A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

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  Horse, Men, Naked

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

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• The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

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  Real, Earth, Cows

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

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• The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

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  Military, War, People

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

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  West, Scientist, Willing

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

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  Feet, Long, Support

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

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  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

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

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• There are no vacant lots in nature.

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  Nature, Vacant

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

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• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

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  Texas, Utah, Space

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

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  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

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  Country, Littles, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

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  Children, Animal, Men

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

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• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

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  Philosophy, Moral, Reckless

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

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