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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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
fun war bombs
The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
fun writing two
So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
travel fun crazy
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
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One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood
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There have been some, even in the Park Service, who advocate spraying Delicate Arch with a fixative of some sort - Elmer's glue perhaps or Lady Clairol Spray Net.
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We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us.
war officers
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.