Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 9

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• One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

  Edward Abbey

  Deep Understanding, Demand, Stones

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

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• Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Rebel, Defiance

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

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• By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.341, Big Earth Publishing

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• The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, War, Nuclear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• All governments require enemy governments.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Enemy

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

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• All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Men, Secret

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

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• Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

  Edward Abbey

  Christian, Grotesque, Being True

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

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• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  Edward Abbey

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cubs

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

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• Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

  Edward Abbey

  Wish

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

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• There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

  Edward Abbey

  Depressing, Obscene

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

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

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• I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Sky, Perfect

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

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• It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

  Edward Abbey

  Saving, Cows, Elk

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• WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
  Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Two, Desire

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.353, Big Earth Publishing

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• When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Men, Rivers

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

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• Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Reality, Other Worlds

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

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

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  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

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

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• We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

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  Dream, Agony, Feet

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey (p. 312), August 1, 1975.

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• By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

  Edward Abbey

  Reflection, Heartache, Joy

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

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• There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Enemy, Looks

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

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heart, Men

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

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

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

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Suffering, Half

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

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