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
giving adequate never-fear
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
true-love life-is-hard body
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
beautiful rebel defiance
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
suicidal should-have rivers
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
depressing obscene
There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
positive atheist men
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
eye men light
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.
nature heart volcanoes
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
coffee evil giving
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
animal hunting moral
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
solitude depth madness
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
real want purpose
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
mean exercise world
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
magic wonder evoke
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.