Edward Abbey quotes - page 7

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field This is what a fan loves most about the game. (Edward Abbey)
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. View quote
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. View quote
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It seems clear at last that our love for the natural worldNatureis the only means by which we can requite Gods obvious love for it. View quote
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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. View quote
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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started. View quote
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter. View quote
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. View quote
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. View quote
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. View quote
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It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. (Edward Abbey)
Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life. View quote
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. View quote
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. View quote
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I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. View quote
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Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood. View quote
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Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started. View quote
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Civilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & Ordure. View quote
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The earth will survive our most ingenious folly. View quote
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His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic. View quote
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Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. (Edward Abbey)
What's more American than violence? View quote
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard--but the grass will prevail. View quote
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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. View quote
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High technology has done us one great service It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring. View quote
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