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
nice rich very-nice
The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
conservative
A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.
scientific-method madness method
Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
skins way beauty-is-only-skin-deep
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
girl flower enough
Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
tyrants age modern
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.
feet may needs
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
forever ask-me ifs
To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
rocks bird sun
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
apologizing insult i-apologize
If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.
wilderness outlaw ifs
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
world irrational knows
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
lying greed paradise
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
country jail world
A world without open country would be universal jail.