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Edward Abbey

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.


— Edward Abbey


#anger #angered #cares #implies #love

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.


— Edward Abbey


#internet #communication

Grown men do not need leaders.


— Edward Abbey


#grown men #leaders #men #need

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.


— Edward Abbey


#democracy #anarchism

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.


— Edward Abbey


#life

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.


— Edward Abbey


#anarchy #democracy #politics #anarchism

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)


— Edward Abbey


#beauty

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.


— Edward Abbey


#experience

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.


— Edward Abbey


#inspiration #beauty

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.


— Edward Abbey


#beauty #life #love #nature #art






About Edward Abbey

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Did you know about Edward Abbey?

Showing his sense of humor he left a message for anyone who asked about his final words: "No comment. It's hard for me to stay serious for more than half a page at a time. "I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Edward Paul Abbey (January 29 1927 – March 14 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues criticism of public land policies and anarchist political views.

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