I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie. Edward Abbey More Quotes by Edward Abbey More Quotes From Edward Abbey Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Edward Abbey greedsinmean Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. Edward Abbey sealakeshands It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog. Edward Abbey dogeasyfunny 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 realmenchildren A pretty girl can do no wrong. Edward Abbey pretty-girlgirlcan-do I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. Edward Abbey ravenseaglestechnology The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started. Edward Abbey keysjourneyhome Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. Edward Abbey buzzardsmexicounhappy Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables Edward Abbey lazysittingyears Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. Edward Abbey intellectcloudsheart We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Edward Abbey wildernesstravelneeds Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind. Edward Abbey painblessingheart A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. Edward Abbey neverthelessvirtuemen In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. Edward Abbey cleanhonestyart The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. Edward Abbey biographiesreadingmen Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary. Edward Abbey inferencelogicordinary Life is cruel? Compared to what? Edward Abbey life-is Life without music would be an intolerable insult. Edward Abbey life-without-musicinsultwould-be Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. Edward Abbey melancholypassionspeak Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind. Edward Abbey ghostmindbelieve
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