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
running horse cheer
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.
communication ideas race
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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.
cowboy cows lovers
Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.
art savages madness
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
males roosters cry
Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
children passion purpose
Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
race nuclear arms
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
world slave employers
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
people church students
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
democracy way rich
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
men sheep brave
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
play common-sense healthy
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.
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.