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
war officers
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
self hatred self-hatred
One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
littles facts academic
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
school ivy league
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
tombstone great-work ends
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
towns trouble building
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
dog tick critics
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
crazy heart adventure
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.
military war people
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
earth lasts adults
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
thinking thinking-alike
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.