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
country littles revolution
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
best-place written good-place
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
country home men
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
horse two rolls-royce
I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
dream mean self
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.
dog boss dobermans
In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
economist turns cleaners
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
mean greed sin
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
teacher littles administrators
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
horse cowboy hands
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
personality enough states
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.
cowboy boys hats
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
horse men
Man was created to complete the horse.
journey blue space
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.