Not particularly philisophical, but a cute line "Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear" from MWG
Edward Abbey Quote Thread
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Posted 20 September 2011 - 06:34 PM
One of the greatest discoveries we made after moving to Tucson was the Phoenix by-pass through Gila Bend. Abbey knew what he was talking about when he said "Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland."
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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but this one speaks to me as a finance/econ guy:
from Desert Solitaire, I believe.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"
from Desert Solitaire, I believe.
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 12:14 AM
Bump, time for more Abbey. Spring is around the corner.
"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." Edward Abbey
"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." Edward Abbey
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 01:37 AM
Bump, time for more Abbey. Spring is around the corner.
"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." Edward Abbey
Thanks Ski. This is good stuff.
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Posted 09 March 2013 - 04:01 AM
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I just started Desert Solitaire this week.
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Posted 19 November 2013 - 04:17 PM
"For God's sake, leave this country alone!" - Abbey
"For Abbey's sake, leave this country alone" - God (Bob Waterman)
"For Abbey's sake, leave this country alone" - God (Bob Waterman)
Edited by Wandering Sagebrush, 19 November 2013 - 04:19 PM.
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Posted 06 January 2014 - 02:19 AM
Glad I found this thread. One of my all-time favorite authors, if you couldn't tell from my handle.
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Posted 07 January 2014 - 07:07 AM
Well, this isn't Abbey, but I thought it should be shared somewhere on WTW.
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, by Charles Dickens (1840-41)
'One half of it... was carpeted, and so partitioned off at the further end as to accommodate a sleeping-place, constructed after the fashion of a berth on board ship, which was shaded, like the windows, with fair white curtains... The other half served for a kitchen, and was fitted up with a stove whose small chimney passed through the roof. It also held a closet or larder, several chests, a great pitcher of water, and a few cooking-utensils and articles of crockery. These latter necessaries hung upon the walls, which in that portion of the establishment devoted to the lady of the caravan, were ornamented with such gayer and lighter decorations as a triangle and a couple of well-thumbed tambourines.'
Edited by Lighthawk, 07 January 2014 - 07:16 AM.
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