Quote

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

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
Invisible
Nirvana
Talk
Utopia
Heaven
Realities
Continents
Lost
Realms
Reality
Worlds
Home
Belong
World
Separate

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
Edward Abbey
Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
Edward Abbey
Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Edward Abbey
Image
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
Edward Abbey
Image
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
Edward Abbey
Image
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
Image
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
Edward Abbey
Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
Edward Abbey
Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
Image
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
Edward Abbey
Image
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Edward Abbey
Image
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
Edward Abbey
Image
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
Edward Abbey
Image
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
Edward Abbey
Image
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
Edward Abbey
Image
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
Edward Abbey
Image
It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
Edward Abbey
Image
There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
Edward Abbey
Image
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey
Image
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Edward Abbey