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
littles facts academic
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
book facts written
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
writing facts fidelity
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
simple facts kind
There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.
people territory facts
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
men world facts
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
war officers
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
self hatred self-hatred
One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
school ivy league
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
tombstone great-work ends
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
towns trouble building
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.