Edward Abbey

[idnative1948]

Anybody read him?

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey

 

[noharleyyet]

Hayduke Lives!

 

[Hayduke]

I've read some of his stuff.

 

[noharleyyet]

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

--Edward Abbey

 

[Dinkshooter]

There is no other author that so influenced my early years. Well maybe Hunter S. Thompson.

 

[AZ402]

There is no other author that so influenced my early years. Well maybe Dr. Suess

Fixed that for you.

 

[Dinkshooter]

I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Stan I am.

 

[OriginalOscar]

Never read him but now I am going to.

Unfortunately I always thought he was a out of touch with reality environmentalist but obviously he appreciated the connnection with wild place that sportsmen aspire for.

 

[idnative1948]

Another of my favorites-

"How to overthrow the system: Brew your own beer, kick in your Tee Vee, kill you own beef, build your own cabin and pi$$ off the fron porch whenever you bloody well feel like it."
Edward Abbey

 

[Flynarrow]

Great advice Edward, but with the increasing attacks on sportsmen, wildlife and habitat by those tilting far right, we could use a few more wildlife crusaders these days. Kick in your TeeVee pacifier and quit leaving it up to the other guy....and never say "SOMEBODY should have done something about that...."

 

[Dinkshooter]

Kick in your TeeVee pacifier and quit leaving it up to the other guy....and never say "SOMEBODY should have done something about that...."

Believe me, that don’t pay. Court date pending..............................................

 

[noharleyyet]

..and there's this one.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. -Edward Abbey

...a premonition of Dinkshooter's hero pics?

 

[Oak]

Believe me, that don’t pay. Court date pending..............................................

Trying hard not to laugh......

 

[Dinkshooter]

"The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused."

 

[JoseCuervo]

I may have read one or two of his books.....

I may have followed some of his advice in life.... Some of it even signature worthy.

 

[noharleyyet]

...one of Jose's favorites;

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

 

[Dinkshooter]

"Do cowboys work hard? Sometimes. But most ranchers don't work very
hard. They have a lot of leisure time for politics and bellyaching
(which is why most state legislatures in the West are occupied and
dominated by cattlemen). Any time you go into a small Western town
you'll find them at the nearest drugstore, sitting around all morning
drinking coffee, talking about their tax breaks.

Is a cowboy's work socially useful? No. As I've already pointed out,
subsidized Western range beef is a trivial item in the national beef
economy. If all of our 31,000 Western public-land ranchers quite
tomorrow, we'd never even notice. Any public school teacher does
harder work, more difficult work, more dangerous work, and far more
valuable work than the cowboy or the rancher. The same applies to the
registered nurses and nurses' aides, garbage workers, and traffic
cops. Harder work, tougher work, more necessary work. We need those
people in our complicated society. We do not need cowboys or
ranchers.
We've carried them on our backs long enough.


http://groups.google.com/group/alt.org.sierra-club/browse_thread/thread/89df73a267780838

 

[Dinkshooter]

To those who might accuse me of wimpery and sentimentality, I'd like
to say this in reply. I respect real men. I admire true manliness.
But
I despise arrogance and brutality and bullies. So let me close with
some nice remarks about cowboys and cattle ranchers. They are a mixed
lot, like the rest of us. As individuals, they range from the bad to
the ordinary to the good. A rancher, after all, is only a farmer,
cropping the public range lands with his four-legged lawnmowers,
stashing our grass into his bank account. A cowboy is a hired hand
trying to make an honest living. Nothing special. I have no quarrel
with these people as fellow human. All I want to do is get their cows
off our property. Let those cowboys and ranchers find some harder way
to make a living, like the rest of us have to do. There's no good
reason why we should subsidize them forever. They've had their free
ride. It's time they learned to support themselves. In the meantime,
I'm going to say good-bye to all you cowboys and cowgirls. I love the
legend too-but keep your sacred cows and your dead horses out of my
elk pastures.