Edward Abbey

Born 1927 · Died 1989

Quotes

“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
Desert Solitaire, p. 113
“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”
Desert Solitaire, p. 147
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Vox Clamantis in Deserto
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Vox Clamantis in Deserto

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Books by Edward Abbey in the order they were published, from The Brave Cowboy (1956) to Sabotaj Çetesi (2020).