45 Famous Quotes by Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey was an American author and environmentalist who is best known for his book "Desert Solitaire." He was a passionate advocate for the natural world and a fierce critic of modern society's impact on the environment. Abbey's writing was marked by a deep reverence for the natural world and a sense of urgency about the need to protect it. His work has inspired generations of environmental activists and helped to raise awareness about the importance of preserving wilderness areas. (Edward Abbey Biography).
Edward Abbey Famous Quotes
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. (Meaning)
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. (Meaning)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. (Meaning)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. (Meaning)
An empty man is full of himself. (Meaning)
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. (Meaning)
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. (Meaning)
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Meaning)
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. (Meaning)
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously. (Meaning)
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. (Meaning)
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. (Meaning)
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. (Meaning)
Freedom begins between the ears. (Meaning)
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. (Meaning)
Wilderness begins in the human mind. (Meaning)
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. (Meaning)
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. (Meaning)
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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!
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Climbing K or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Grown men do not need leaders.
― Edward Abbey Quotes
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