Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 26

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

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  Law, Space, Alaska

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

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• Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

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  Believe, Feet, Rocks

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

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• The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

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  Running, Book, East

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

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  Dog, Tick, Critics

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

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  Worry, Hopeless, Situation

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

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• How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

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  Art, Perfect, Produce

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

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• Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

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  Men, Finals, Critics

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

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• When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

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  Towns, Trouble, Building

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

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• Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

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  Children, Future, Hell

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• The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

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  Believe, Government, People

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• A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

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  Business, Government, Self

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

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• The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

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  Accomplish Nothing, Lust, Energy

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.84, Big Earth Publishing

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• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

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  Aunt, Giving, Age

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

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• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

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  Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

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  Nature, Civilization, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

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  Bed, Gertrude, Done

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

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• A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

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  Crowded

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

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• Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

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  Beautiful, Oasis, Phoenix

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

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• Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

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  Reality, Appearance, Damn

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

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• Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

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  Art, Pride, Taste

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

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  Regret, Mind, Midnight

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• The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

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  Country, Distance, Land

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• James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

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  Tombstone, Great Work, Dead Ends

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• The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

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  Life Is, Shame, Fear Of Death

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

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