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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 4

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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

New York, Boast, New Yorkers

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

Women who love only women may have a good point.

May

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

Waiting, Doe, Desert

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Home, Heaven, Utopia

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

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Men, Enemy, He Man

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

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Desert, Intimate, Draws

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

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Tragedy, Dying, Tragic

"Remembering Alex Cockburn" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2012.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Animal, Hunting, Moral

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Travel, Fun, Crazy

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

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Men, Sheep, Land

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

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Stress, Might, Empires

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Dream, Nightmare, Terrible

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

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Moments, Precarious

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

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

Ideas, Needs, Defense

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

Nice, Rich, Very Nice

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Humility, Virtue

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

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Turkeys, Envy, Littles

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

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Useless, Virtue, Morose

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.113, University of Arizona Press

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Peace, Real, War

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Book, Bed, Cadavers

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

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Strength, Nature, Iron

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

Teamwork, Stupid, Real

"The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey, (p. 313), 1975.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

Girl, Pretty Girl, Can Do

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

Military, Gun, Rights

"Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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