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
book reviews written
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
integrity vegetables cover-ups
Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.
another-day
Life: another day, another dolor.
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
life-is
Life is cruel? Compared to what?
suicide ifs
Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
speaks-out shopping rivers
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.
technology eagles ravens
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
night pie vision
I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
jobs artist miracle
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live....
views elements point-of-view
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
government enemy
All governments require enemy governments.
miserable obsessed hard
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
ideas doe philosopher
A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.