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
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.
knee-jerk-reactions knees pads
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative....
suicide sex availability
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
wine night easy-days
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.
may dip pool
Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
children men animal
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.
character men race
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
beer ugly chance
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.