Quote

All living things on earth are kindred.

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
Earth
Things
Kindred
Living

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
Edward Abbey
Image
Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
Edward Abbey
Image
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
Edward Abbey
Image
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
Edward Abbey
Image
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
Edward Abbey
Image
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
Edward Abbey
Image
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
Edward Abbey
Image
The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
Edward Abbey
Image
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
Edward Abbey
Image
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
Edward Abbey
Image
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
Edward Abbey
Image
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
Edward Abbey
Image
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
Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Edward Abbey
Image
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
Edward Abbey
Image
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
Edward Abbey
Image
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
Edward Abbey
Image
Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
Edward Abbey
Image
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey
Image
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
Edward Abbey