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Much Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I…
- Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
- Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the…
- Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological…
- No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that…
- I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
- A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where…
- 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.…
- Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get…
- 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…
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into…
- "If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as…
- Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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