Ed Abbey Bot

Beyond the wall of the unreal city... there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then - #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

And I am struck once again by the unutterable beauty, terror, and strangeness of everything we think we know. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

[...] We will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I look forward to the day when all river runners carry, as part of their standard equipment, a surface-to-air missile launcher armed with heat-seeking missiles. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

[...] We will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey