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
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.
doubt sauce meals
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
nuts fellows fastidious
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
men likes february
No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.
gnarly world metaphysical
The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
mind cobwebs metaphysics
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
heart mind relaxation
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
may world illusion
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
sports butterfly example
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.
christian atheist may
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
believe mind ghost
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
tombstone great-work ends
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
country america nuclear
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.