Who is Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author, essayist, and environmental activist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors; his novel Hayduke Lives!; and his essay collections Down the River (with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends) (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).Early life and education
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- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Shallowchaser: edward abbey states it best as i just finished reading desert solitaire, “a man on foot, on horseback or a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”C_goodman89: if america could be once again a nation of self reliant farmers, craftsman, hunters, ranchers and artists then the rich would have little power to dominate others. neither to serve nor to rule: that was the american dream ~ edward abbey~
Gerrygenga: growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell - edward abbey
_bldavis: movie idea: king edward the elder, son of alfred the great, and his plot + enactment to retrieve the relics of st. oswald from the bardney abbey in lincolnshire, then in the danelaw.
Edwar14427: grown men do not need leaders.,edward abbey,laws-of-nature, maturity,
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