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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 26

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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Army, Journey, Two

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.

Crazy, Enemy, World

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

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Men, Snakes, Humanist

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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.

Mean, Environmental, World

Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Civilization, Names, Worthy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Lying, Book, Writing

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

Law, Space, Alaska

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

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

Sin, Original Sin, Originals

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Worry, Hopeless, Situation

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Crowded

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

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Simple, Everyday, Ordinary

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

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

Rights, Rocks, Black

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

Believe, Government, People

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Reality, Appearance, Damn

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

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

Saving, Wilderness, Left

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

Accomplish Nothing, Lust, Energy

Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.84, Big Earth Publishing

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Men, Finals, Critics

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

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

Country, Distance, Land

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Nature, Civilization, Cities

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Beautiful, Oasis, Phoenix

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

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Life Is, Shame, Fear Of Death

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

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

Suicide, Ifs

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Aunt, Giving, Age

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

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Children, Future, Hell

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