Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Edward Abbey quotes, Edward Abbey sayings, and Edward Abbey proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.Edward Abbey
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.Edward Abbey
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.Edward Abbey
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.Edward Abbey
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.Edward Abbey
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Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.Edward Abbey
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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard but the grass will prevail.Edward Abbey
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Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.Edward Abbey
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.Edward Abbey
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Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.Edward Abbey
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.Edward Abbey
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.Edward Abbey
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.Edward Abbey
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There is this to be said for walking: it's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.Edward Abbey
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.Edward Abbey
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affrontEdward Abbey
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Somewhere in the depths of soltitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.Edward Abbey
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Society is a like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.Edward Abbey
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.Edward Abbey
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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.Edward Abbey
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All living things on earth are kindred.Edward Abbey
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.Edward Abbey
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The “terror” of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.Edward Abbey
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.Edward Abbey
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. Edward Abbey
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.Edward Abbey
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.Edward Abbey
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There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.Edward Abbey
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