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Edward Abbey Quote: “Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If the end does not justify the means – what can?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If you’re never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You’ve only missed out on one half of life.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace – a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that’s patrotism.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty – you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally...”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “You can’t see anything from a car; you’ve got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you’ll see something, maybe.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A house built on greed cannot long endure.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don’t believe in happy endings is because I don’t believe in endings.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Life is already too short to waste on speed.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true – I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia...”
Edward Abbey Quote: “You can’t belay a man who’s falling in love.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit’s weak.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A mother’s sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “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.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “It’s all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Don’t talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms – I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What is truth? I don’t know and I’m sorry I brought it up.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The dog’s life is a good life, for a dog.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “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.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The river, the canyon, the desert world was always changing, from moment to moment, from miracle to miracle, within the firm reality of mother earth. River, rock, sun, blood, hunger, wings, joy – this is the real, Smith would have said, if he’d wanted to. If he felt like it. All the rest is androgynous theosophy.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?”
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