Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 9

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• In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Men, Dust

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

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• If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

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  Children, Ordinary, Half

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

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• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

  Edward Abbey

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

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• Simplicity is always a virtue.

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  Life, Simplicity, Virtue

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

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• One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

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  Personality, Enough, States

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

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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• All governments require enemy governments.

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  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.

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

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  Fun, War, Nuclear

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

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  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cubs

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

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• Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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  Believe, Mind, Ghost

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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

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  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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

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