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
nice rich very-nice
The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
conservative
A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.
scientific-method madness method
Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
skins way beauty-is-only-skin-deep
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
arms reason
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
brother doe realizing
I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
girl flower enough
Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
flower light rocks
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
war technology vietnam
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
men self fire
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
needs wilderness possibility
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
secret balance world
Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
men guru should
Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
fun war bombs
The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.