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
power anarchy worst
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
girl boys men
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.
sadness life-is tragic
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
church bars four
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
strength iron heavy
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
wilderness
Wilderness. The word itself is music.
abortion pro-life want
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
love marriage laughter
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
charity spontaneous affront
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
country men rivers
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.
thinking thought-provoking innovation
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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.
men people dangerous-man
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.