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
Edward Abbey quotes about
joy survival doe
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.
hero evil people
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.
intellectual controversial interest
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
men land sheep
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
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.
laughter wit tyranny
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
life book reading
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
pieces insolence repetition
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
lasts pentagon chiefs
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
jesus reason spartacus
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.