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Edward Abbey  Quotes
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect – like a man – on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

—Edward Abbey

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Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive...

—Edward Abbey

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The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring,...

—Edward Abbey

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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I’ve encountered some unnecessary resistance that’s because most of the traffic...

—Edward Abbey

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When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

—Edward Abbey

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A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells...

—Edward Abbey

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The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

—Edward Abbey

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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

—Edward Abbey

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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

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As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

—Edward Abbey

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

—Edward Abbey

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The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth – with a capital G. ‘Progress’ in our nation has for too long been confused with...

—Edward Abbey

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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks – chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

—Edward Abbey

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There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a...

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

—Edward Abbey

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Beyond the river and ten miles east of the city the Sangre Mountains began to reveal themselves in more detail as the sun rose higher, the rampart of blue shadow dissolving in the light, exposing...

—Edward Abbey

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

—Edward Abbey

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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the...

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Why can’t we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the...

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Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

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

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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred ‘great books’ – and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

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And the so-called ‘political process’ is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

—Edward Abbey

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In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still...

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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.

—Edward Abbey

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Journey
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Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.

—Edward Abbey

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PassionPhilosophy
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If it’s knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains....

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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood

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Perhaps I shouldn’t call it shit. That’s a bit crude. I don’t really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is...

—Edward Abbey

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I’d like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population – about 25 million would be plenty – of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting...

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

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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn

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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

—Edward Abbey

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If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don’t want it, then...

—Edward Abbey

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The one thing … that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial....

—Edward Abbey

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“One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself 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...

—Edward Abbey

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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest – next only to lust.

—Edward Abbey

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One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more...

—Edward Abbey

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The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like...

—Edward Abbey

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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.

—Edward Abbey

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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel

—Edward Abbey

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In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much...

—Edward Abbey

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I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious...

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

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FriendProblem
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Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

—Edward Abbey

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AbortionAmerican Author
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be...

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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

—Edward Abbey

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