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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 15

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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Philosophy, Ideas, Doe

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

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Serious, Too Late, Desperate

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

Tyrants, Age, Modern

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Book, Writing, Shoes

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Widows, Golden, Married

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

Dream, Space, Joy

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Philosophy, Moral, Reckless

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

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

Nature, Blood, Hands

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Nature, Civilization, Names

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Dams, Ugly, Canyons

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Texas, Utah, Space

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Choices, Desert, Done

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Knowing, Grows, Wiser

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Inspirational, Tree, Giants

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Powerful, Knees, Pads

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Children, Real, Men

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

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Good Life, Laughing, Way

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Littles, Answers, World

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.

Roots, Evil, And Love

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Writing, Records, May

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

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Nature, Conservation, Form

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Nuts, Fastidious, Fellows

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

Two, People, Groups

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

America, Rising, Levels

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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