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
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.
liberty scare too-much
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
people would-be death-penalty
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
race survival honor
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
age flesh spirit
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
morning coffee night
Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
nuts fellows fastidious
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
waiting vacuums antics
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
men world facts
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
america people trying
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
america rising levels
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.