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
dog tick critics
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
crazy heart adventure
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.
military war people
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
earth lasts adults
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
thinking thinking-alike
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
routine occasional easier
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
done second-best should
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
growing-up careers grows
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
best-place written good-place
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
country america nuclear
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
country home men
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
hiking waste life-is
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
book writing years
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
book facts written
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.