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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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
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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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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
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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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I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
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The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.