Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 17

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• Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

  Edward Abbey

  Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

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

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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.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Littles, Revolution

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Moral, Reckless

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

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• Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
  basic tyrant of the modern age.

  Edward Abbey

  Tyrants, Age, Modern

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

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• All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

  Edward Abbey

  Dams, Ugly, Canyons

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

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• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Writing, Shoes

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

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• Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Space, Joy

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• Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Grows, Wiser

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

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• In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Blood, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, 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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• Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

  Edward Abbey

  Widows, Golden, Married

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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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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Choices, Desert, Done

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

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• The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Real, Men

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

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• All living things on earth are kindred.

  Edward Abbey

  Earth, Kindred, Living Things

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

  Edward Abbey

  Religious, Horse, Crazy

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

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• A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

  Edward Abbey

  Risk, Minorities, Alive

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.202, Holt Paperbacks

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• The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

  Edward Abbey

  Punishment, Inspire, Purpose

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

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• Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Expansion, Alternatives

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

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• All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

  Edward Abbey

  Army, Hierarchy, Wells

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

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• Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

  Edward Abbey

  Liberty, Scare, Too Much

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

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• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Flower, Flora And Fauna

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, Cobwebs, Metaphysics

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

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• In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Honesty, Clean

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

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