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
believe fidelity being-true
I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?
men finals critics
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
fate utah pigs
Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia....
girl horse boys
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
men long dams
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
sunday beer afternoon
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
america saving wilderness
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
finals may
Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
mind wilderness humans
Wilderness begins in the human mind.
stress might empires
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
fate men differences
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
mother daughter men
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
mother baby jobs
Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
girl rain utah
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.