Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 19

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• Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

  Edward Abbey

  Couple, Needs, May

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

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• How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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  Girl, Rain, Utah

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

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• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

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  Stars, Flower, Sleep

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

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

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  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

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  Mean, Environmental, World

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

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

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  Lakes, Hands, Sea

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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  Two, People, Groups

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

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• Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

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  Children, Passion, Foundation

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• Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

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  Reading, Hands, Mind

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

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• There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

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  Sin, Original Sin, Originals

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

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• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

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  Essentials, Useless, World

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

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• I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

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  Simple, Facts, Kind

  "The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader".

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• Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

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  Girl, Wanted

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

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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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  Cowboy, Boys, Hats

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

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• Man was created to complete the horse.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Men

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• The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

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  Jobs, Artist, Miracle

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

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• Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

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  Cowboy, Cows, Lovers

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

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• Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

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  Men, Circles, Wish

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

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• War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

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  War, Officers

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

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• All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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  Government, Liberty, Form

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

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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

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  Men, Jail, Giving

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

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

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  Girl, Horse, Boys

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• The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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  Hawks, Cry, Beaks

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

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• Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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  Symphony, Musical, Trying

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

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