Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbeywas an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 January 1927
CountryUnited States of America
men levers littles
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
saws common terrorism
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
thinking stupidity kind
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
ambition someday enough
My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
adventure men feet
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
government clerks demand
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
machines wilderness left-behind
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
eye somewhere-else air
Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?
air cost-of-living rising
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
travel fun crazy
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
philosophy political growth
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
mean exercise world
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
animal hunting moral
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
coffee evil giving
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.