EDWARD ABBEY QUOTES II

American author (1927-1989)


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

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The Monkey Wrench Gang


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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

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


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


The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Tags: wit, tyranny


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

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Abbey's Road


Contempt for animal life leads to contempt for human life.

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One Life at a Time, Please

Tags: animals


Do not burn yourselves 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 adventure.

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attributed, Saving Nature's Legacy


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

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"Water", Desert Solitaire


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


Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang

Tags: violence


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

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Down the River

Tags: love


To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

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"The Dead Man at Grandview Point", Desert Solitaire

Tags: death


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

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Hayduke Lives

Tags: pessimism


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


All living things on earth are kindred.

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"Serpents of Paradise", Desert Solitaire

Tags: life


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


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

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The Journey Home

Tags: growth


Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Tags: civilization, survival


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


The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Tags: democracy