Edward Abbey Quotes

653 quotes · Author, Environmentalist

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Edward Abbey Quotes

All Philosophical Angry Funny Wise Courageous 653 quotes · page 28 of 50

Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Nostalgic

“Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.”

War Blue Coats

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Philosophical

“The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.”

Years Atheism Positive

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Adventurous

“Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.”

Dream Space

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Creative

“How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.”

Writing Years

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Adventurous

“When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.”

Mind Regret Midnight

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Funny

“I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.”

Two Horse Rolls Royce

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Lonely

“Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.”

Loses Many Friends

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Sad

“Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.”

Way Skins

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Courageous

“What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

Book Hero Brave

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Courageous

“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”

Men America Numbers

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Angry

“New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?”

New York Boast New Yorkers

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Angry

“America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.”

Country America Slavery

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