Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. Edward Abbey More Quotes by Edward Abbey More Quotes From Edward Abbey The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward. Edward Abbey laughter girl beautiful Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness. Edward Abbey expansion alternatives art The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly. Edward Abbey vanity animal men Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea. Edward Abbey eye sea song The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan. Edward Abbey military war people The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses. Edward Abbey dachau technology war Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position. Edward Abbey energy sitting exercise The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name. Edward Abbey daughter mother men Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. Edward Abbey cooking spiritual food One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers. Edward Abbey self-hatred hatred self 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. Edward Abbey disease-and-death writing mean There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Edward Abbey greed stupidity world Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey waste hiking life-is We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. Edward Abbey more-time machines saving Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? Edward Abbey delight suffering desire I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away. Edward Abbey regret half suffering Without courage, all other virtues are useless. Edward Abbey morose virtue useless War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers. Edward Abbey officers war Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) Edward Abbey beautiful character way Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. Edward Abbey desert
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