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 writing shoes
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
writing facts fidelity
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
mean men ends
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
sea critics rail
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
rights rocks black
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
cowboy american-west revolution
The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
symphony musical trying
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
elk saving cows
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
school unity cows
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
writing selective
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
new-york heart virginia
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
art philosophy crude
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
long natural be-good
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
horse central-park years
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.