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Edward Abbey Quotes

Edward Abbey quotes

American Author January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989

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How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. Edward Abbey
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 agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.) Edward Abbey
To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the public what it wants, that their primary duty is to serve the public not preserve the wilds. "Parks are for people" is the public relations slogan, which decoded means that the parks are for people-in-automobiles. Behind the slogan is the assumption that the majority of Americans, exactly like the managers of the tourist industry, expect and demand to see... Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for..."
[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine. Edward Abbey
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. Edward Abbey
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force..."
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. Edward Abbey
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand...."
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. Edward Abbey
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
So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes. Edward Abbey
The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if..."
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the..."
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey quote: "Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and..."
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Edward Abbey

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