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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 5

All Quotes Adventure Age Anarchy Appearance Army Art Atheism Atheist Beer Belief Business Challenges Character Children Coffee Common Sense Communication Country Critics Culture Democracy Desire Doubt Duty Dying Earth Evil Fate Fear Football Freedom Fun Funny Giving Grace Greed Growth Guru Hate Heart Heaven Hell Home Honor Human Nature Ideology Inspirational Jesus Journey Joy Laughter Liberty Life Love Lying Madness Metaphysics Military Nature Pain Passion Peace Philosophy Police Positive Pride Purpose Rain Reading Reality Regret Revolution Revolver Risk Running School Seven Silence Simplicity Sin Solitude Soul Sports Study Stupidity Suffering Survival Taxes Technology Terrorism Theology Tragedy Travel Virtue Waiting Wall Water Wilderness Wit Writing

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Wine, People, Independence

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

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Life, Simplicity, Virtue

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Taken, Democracy, Anarchy

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Fool, Mankind, Foolishness

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

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

World, Tribes

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Adventure, Cutting, Civilization

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Positive, Tired, Thinking

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Coffee, Evil, Giving

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

America, Trying, God Bless

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

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

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Wilderness

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Nature, Wings, Roots

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

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Philosophy, Political, Growth

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.114, University of Arizona Press

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Beautiful, Men, Down And

Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.148, Macmillan

I stand for what I stand on.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Pride, Grace, Needs

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

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Long, House, Greed

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

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Baseball, Hero, Player

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

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Friendship, Dog, Silly

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

Girl, Children, Hands

Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.156, Holt Paperbacks

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Adventure, Climbing, Half

"Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity" by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, (p. 338), 1994.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Thousand, One Word, Right Words

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.11, Macmillan

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Lying, Greed, Paradise

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

Enemy, States

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

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

Pain, Sorrow, Why Not

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

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