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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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
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Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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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.