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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 10

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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Real, Journey, Hiking

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Pain, Heart, Journey

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Rose, Tree, Growth

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

Beer, Ugly, Chance

"The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Second Rape of the West"), 1977.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Sweet, Democracy, Cures

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Christian, Atheist, Foxholes

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

J Edgar Hoover, Parnell, Shitheads

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Freedom, Rights, Discovery

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Mind, Wilderness, Humans

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

Evil, Easy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Home

Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

Dark, Moon, Sides

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Men, Differences, Delight

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Hero, Army, Men

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

Military, Believe, Civilization

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Running, Coffee, Second Chance

"Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Mean, Exercise, Doe

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Art, Responsibility, Two

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Cousin, Wall, Thinking

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Men, Long, Dams

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

College, London, Mark

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

Running, Horse, Cheer

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Pills, World, Sake

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Football, Team, Winning

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Integrity, Vegetables, Cover Ups

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