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
hands sea fishing
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
years lazy sitting
Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
men two desire
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
wall writing two
Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
men numbers america
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
men snakes humanist
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
fun writing two
So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
games boredom despair
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
sorry truth knows
What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
mean environmental world
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
pain heart years
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
nature civilization names
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
life simplicity virtue
Simplicity is always a virtue.
taken people important
Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.