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
museums world-literature pay
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
stupidity greed world
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
lying world sufficient
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
world different aspect
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
favorite-hobby world saving
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
survival machines world
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
crazy enemy world
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.
secret balance world
Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
mean environmental world
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
cowboy world-literature certain
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
world slave employers
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
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.
men world good-enough
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
world essentials useless
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.