EDWARD ABBEY QUOTES II

American author (1927-1989)

Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.

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The Serpents of Paradise

Tags: money


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

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The Monkey Wrench Gang


There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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"Gather at the River", Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Tags: technology


The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Tags: war, death


There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.

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"Walking", The Journey Home

Tags: walking


Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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The Journey Home

Tags: growth


Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.

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Down the River

Tags: love


I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

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"Down the River", Desert Solitaire

Tags: atheism


The most attractive feature of Alaska, I say, is its small, insignificant human population.

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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside


The desert rat carries one distinction like a halo: he has learned to love the kind of country that most people find unlovable.

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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Tags: desert


We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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Abbey's Road


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.

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Abbey's Road

Tags: guns


All gold is fool's gold.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Tags: gold


Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Tags: work


Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely an illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Tags: diet, food


Love is a disease. A social disease. A romantic, venereal, medieval disease. A hangover from the days of the fornicating troubadours and the gentlemen in iron britches.

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The Serpents of Paradise

Tags: love


Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang

Tags: violence


Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang


Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

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"The Crooked Wood", The Journey Home

Tags: men


The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

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"Manhattan Twilight, Hoboken Night", The Journey Home

Tags: cities