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
two giving superstitions
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
sports butterfly example
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.
real earth cows
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
book enemy lasts
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
art honesty clean
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
reason
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
dark moon sides
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
jesus feet water
Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.
believe afterlife feet
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
christian atheist may
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
brother giving way
Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'
christian grotesque being-true
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
culture goering revolver
When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
hate knives intellectual
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.