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Edward Abbey Quotes
«Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
reflects, supernatural, supernatural being
«No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
«When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Arguments,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attempting, complicated, opaque, philosopher, plainly, tedious, The Philosopher, true to
«Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country»
«Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
at leisure, fan, field game, frequent, interruptions, leisure, offering, reflect, sluggish, spectator, The Field, The Spectator, trivial
«Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| Keywords:
canyon, canyons, climbing, floating, grand, Grand Canyon, inner tube, The Tube, tube, tubes
«That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
glut, glutted, indigestible, More information
«In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood»
«Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.»
«High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
chopping, drawing, Fire and Water, high technology, high water, performing, primordial, spring water, tasks, technology, wood