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
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative....
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.
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Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
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I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles....
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.