Edward Abbey quotes - page 3

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. (Edward Abbey)

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Edward Abbey

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

Edward Abbey

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

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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.

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

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

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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

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All living things on earth are kindred. (Edward Abbey)

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

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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Edward Abbey

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey

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

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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

Edward Abbey

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey

I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Edward Abbey

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. (Edward Abbey)

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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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.

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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey

Occupation: American Author
Born: January 29, 1927
Died: March 14, 1989
Quotes count: 179
Wikipedia: Edward Abbey

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