Quote

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

Edward Abbey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Cannot
Easily
Much
Wear
Tears
Positive
Brain
Call
Tissues
Whatever
Saves
Understand
Tear

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
Edward Abbey
Image
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey
Image
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
Edward Abbey
Image
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
Edward Abbey
Image
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
Edward Abbey
Image
Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
Edward Abbey
Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
Edward Abbey
Image
Life: another day, another dolor.
Edward Abbey
Image
When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Edward Abbey
Image
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
Edward Abbey
Image
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
Edward Abbey
Image
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Edward Abbey
Image
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
Edward Abbey
Image
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Edward Abbey
Image
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
Edward Abbey
Image
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward Abbey
Image
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
Edward Abbey
Image
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
Edward Abbey
Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
Edward Abbey
Image
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
Edward Abbey