Edward Abbey Quotes

653 quotes · Author, Environmentalist

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Edward Abbey Quotes

All Philosophical Angry Funny Wise Courageous 653 quotes · page 26 of 50

Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Angry

“Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.”

Sides Balls Retreat

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Philosophical

“We 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.”

Men Space Phrases

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Grateful

“Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.”

People Book

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Angry

“The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.”

Enemy Natural

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Angry

“War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.”

War Government Army

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Philosophical

“The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.”

World Bigger Folks

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Funny

“A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.”

Dream Genius

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Philosophical

“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”

Thinking Tired

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Adventurous

“Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.”

Water Desert Hobbies

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Creative

“Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.”

People Writing Challenges

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Wise

“Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.”

Jobs Light Photography

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Funny

“Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.”

Running Fun Sex

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