Edward AbbeyThe rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.20… ▶371ReadingSadnessTime
Edward AbbeyOf course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. ✨ The Journey Home: Some Words in … ▶371Reading
Edward AbbeyThose art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.36, RosettaBooks371LoveReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyAnarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.361Death
Edward AbbeyPower is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.21, RosettaBooks361PoliticsReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyOur modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.372Sadness
Edward AbbeyIt's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.372LifeTimeTruth
Edward AbbeyWe need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert Solitaire, p.129, Simon and Schuster372Hope
Edward AbbeyThe purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either ge… ▶372HumanityLoveReading
Edward AbbeyAnarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests,… ▶362LifePoliticsReading
Edward AbbeyTee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?351Thought
Edward AbbeyJack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the… ▶351DeathReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyThe ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p… ▶362HumanityPoliticsReading
Edward AbbeyAn empty man is full of himself. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.28, RosettaBooks363ReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyMexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.57, RosettaBooks352DeathLifeReading
Edward AbbeyMy notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness,… ▶374ReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyThe best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.25, RosettaBooks341HumanityReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyThe tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the rev… ▶341PoliticsReading
Edward AbbeyThere's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.16, RosettaBooks341ReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyWe are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. ✨ E… ▶363LovePhilosophyTime
Edward AbbeyA true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the P… ▶375PoliticsReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyMy sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemp… ▶353ReadingSadnessThought
Edward AbbeySimply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even… ▶353HumanityPolitics
Edward AbbeyAbolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in th… ▶353PoliticsReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyIf you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.342DeathLife
Edward AbbeyA cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.54, RosettaBooks375ReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyThose who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.375Life
Edward AbbeyRoosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.47, RosettaBooks353ReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyWilderness begins in the human mind. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.46, RosettaBooks331HumanityReadingSadness
Edward AbbeyHomosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.364Reading
