Quote

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

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
Might
Phrases
Men
Obsessed
Time
Deeply
Love
Discover
Like
Meaning
Space
Learn
Preoccupied
Live
Phrase

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
Edward Abbey
Image
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
Edward Abbey
Image
In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
Edward Abbey
Image
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Edward Abbey
Image
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
Edward Abbey
Image
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
Edward Abbey
Image
To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
Edward Abbey
Image
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
Edward Abbey
Image
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
Edward Abbey
Image
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
Edward Abbey
Image
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
Edward Abbey
Image
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Edward Abbey
Image
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 things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
Edward Abbey
Image
Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
Edward Abbey
Image
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey
Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
Edward Abbey
Image
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
Edward Abbey
Image
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
Edward Abbey
Image
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
Edward Abbey
Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
Edward Abbey