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
way resistance unnecessary
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
communication writing winter
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.
sea sky perfect
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
country government liberty
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
mean doe ends
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
giving decision understanding
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
flower sunshine grandchildren
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
fun adventure climbing
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
democracy rifles bombers
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.
nature conservation smart-growth
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
stress car long
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
heart clouds intellect
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
book hero brave
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
art inspire nature-and-life
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.