EDWARD ABBEY QUOTES II

American author (1927-1989)


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

EDWARD ABBEY
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A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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Hayduke Lives

Tags: pessimism


All living things on earth are kindred.

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"Serpents of Paradise", Desert Solitaire

Tags: life


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.

EDWARD ABBEY

Abbey's Road

Tags: guns


Grab a woman. Help the movement. Liberate a woman tonight. You'll get stale out here in the woods, living like a bear. Your balls will shrink, your tongue grow stiff and heavy. Your mind will wither away. Whatever became of William Gatlin? Went mad flogging his bloody duff.

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The Serpents of Paradise

Tags: women


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


Contempt for animal life leads to contempt for human life.

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One Life at a Time, Please

Tags: animals


At that moment I was ready to forsake my other home, forsake my mother and father and little sister and all my friends, and spend the rest of my life in the desert eating cactus for lunch, drinking blood at cocktail time, and letting the ferocious sun flay me skin and soul. I'd gladly have traded parents, school, a college education and a career for one dependable saddle hourse. Later that night, of course, alone in bed, the deadly homesickness would strike me faint.

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Fire on the Mountain


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

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Down the River

Tags: love


A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

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"Water", Desert Solitaire


Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

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"Water", Desert Solitaire

Tags: growth


I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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"Serpents of Paradise", Desert Solitaire


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


Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

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Abbey's Road

Tags: guns


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

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

Tags: God


Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

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

Tags: capitalism


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