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About Edward Abbey
American author and essayist
Edward Abbey was an American author and essayist, known for his environmental writing and outspoken criticism of public land policy. He lived from 1927 to 1989. Abbey wrote both fiction and nonfiction, and his work is closely associated with the American West and with a hard-edged defense of wild places. His best-known books include The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire. He was also noted for anarchist political views, which often shaped the force and independence of his voice.
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- “There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”Edward Abbey
Deserts: more sayings
- “But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”Andrew Marvell
- “The 'Monster Hunter' world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and the…”Paul W. S. Anderson
- “I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … N…”W.G. Sebald
More Forests quotes
- “The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains ha…”Isabella Bird
- “In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees…”Richard Dawkins
- “While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.”Nancy Gibbs
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Books by Edward Abbey
Monkey Wrench Gang
1988
The Journey Home
1977
The Brave Cowboy
1956
Good News
1991
Hayduke lives!
2011