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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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More quotes by Edward Abbey
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
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
Edward Abbey
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
Edward Abbey
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
Edward Abbey
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
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Edward Abbey
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
Edward Abbey
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Edward Abbey
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
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
Edward Abbey
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
Edward Abbey
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Edward Abbey
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
Edward Abbey
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Edward Abbey
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
Edward Abbey
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
Edward Abbey
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
Edward Abbey
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Edward Abbey