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Edward Abbey Quotes


An American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. 
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the "Thoreau of the American West".

Here are some famous quotes by Edward Abbey.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion when and if she wants it amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

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Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers so long as they are wild free spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!