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
government liberty form
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
military men ideas
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
common-sense atheism opaque
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
nature our-love unfaithful
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
simple everyday tangible
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
children real men
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
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Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.
favorite-hobby world saving
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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.