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
reality appearance damn
Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
reality mets knows
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
real blood sweat
I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
reality trying quotation-marks
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
dream real fall
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
teamwork real stupid
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
real want purpose
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
home reality other-worlds
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
writing police musical
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
symphony shostakovich form
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
mean greed sin
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
accomplish-nothing lust energy
The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
stupidity greed world
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
yesterday news newspapers
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.