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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320434252{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531588223-e020d87d-f7dd094f-cf6391ff-2a16″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 19<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531589281-1a7ccd5f-aa59094f-cf6391ff-2a16″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution & misquote notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Abbey\u2019s quote has been incorrectly attributed to American revolutionary author & activist Thomas Paine<\/strong>. We did not find any evidence to support the idea that the words originated with Paine, and the National Thomas Paine Historical Association scholars have also noted that Paine did not<\/u> say or write anything resembling this statement. Common Edward Abbey quote variations also misattributed to Paine include:<\/p>\n

“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from his government<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

“The duty of a patriot is to protect\u00a0his country from his government<\/strong>.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor’s ebook\u00a0 \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf6391ff-2a16″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cAs a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action.\u00a0 However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 43<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s eBook \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320476483{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227315405-d4788f33-d1ff”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cBalance, that\u2019s the secret. Moderate extremism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

Desert Solitaire<\/em> (1968) New York, NY: Touchstone, 1990 edition, p. 265<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cBalance, that\u2019s the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. Unlike Thoreau who insisted on one world at a time I am attempting to make the best of two. After six months in the desert I am volunteering for a winter of front-line combat duty \u2013 caseworker, public warfare department \u2013 in the howling streets of Megalomania, U.S.A.\u201d (p. 265)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Desert Solitaire<\/em> (1968 |1990 Touchstone edition), International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-671-6958-6[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227317204-03a0fe52-6285″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIf the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone?\u00a0 Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

Beyond the Wall<\/em> (1984) New York: Henry Holt & Co., p. 44<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n[Non-fiction. Chapter one: \u201cA Walk in the Desert Hills\u201d]\n

\u201cIf the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. Anything becomes permissible.\u201d<\/p>\n

(p. 44)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Beyond the Wall<\/em> (1984) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-0-03-069299-4<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: In his preface to Beyond the Wall<\/em>, Abbey wrote: \u201cA portion of the essay \u201cGather at the River\u201d first appeared in Outside<\/em> [magazine] in the fall of 1983. \u2026The remaining essays in this book were first published during the 1970s as parts of the text of large-format scenic photography books. \u2026Most of these books were expensive (one retailed for a flat $100); my enemies could buy them but few of my friends. All but The Hidden Canyon <\/em>and Cactus Country<\/em> are now out of print and unavailable. This seemed to me to be adequate justification for recollecting and revising what I feel are the best of the chapters of those books.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s copyright notes also state that portions of chapter one were previously published in GEO<\/em> \u201cin a somewhat different form and with different titles\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320483531{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227400389-5c2b178a-0432″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cI know – when a man\u2019s best friend is his dog that man needs help \u2013professional help.\u00a0 I understand that and I acknowledge it and I say to hell with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

The Fool\u2019s Progress: An Honest Novel<\/em> (1998) New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1990 edition, p. 148<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Non-fiction]\n

\u201cWe go for a walk, my dog and I, watching the sunset die by slow degrees on the western sky. We walk for miles and miles on the dirt road, see nothing man-made but a corral and loading chute and windmill. My belly hurts; we return to the truck. I fill the dog\u2019s water bowl, pour a ration of Purina Hi-Pro Krunchies into her feed dish and give her another Nizoral tablet, encased in a lump of cheese, for the fungus in her lungs.<\/p>\n

I know, when a man\u2019s best friend is his dog that man needs help \u2013professional help. I understand that and I acknowledge it and I say to hell with it.\u201d (p. 148)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library – The Fool\u2019s Progress: An Honest Novel<\/em> (15 August 1988) eBook via Scribd [subscription service], International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-1-4668-0629-0<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: From the Fool\u2019s Progress <\/em>copyright notes: \u201cParts of this novel first appeared, in different form, in City Magazine<\/em>, New Times<\/em>, Confessions of a Barbarian<\/em> (Capra Press), and Slumgullion Stew: A Reader<\/em> (E.P. Dutton)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227402089-95942826-f29e”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cMusic clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 71<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s eBook copy \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320494953{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227494005-3007c494-135c”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe longest journey begins with a single step, not the turn of an ignition key.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

The Journey Home<\/em>: Some Words in Defense of the American West<\/em> (1977) New York: E.P. Dutton, p. 205<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Non-fiction]\n

\u201cThe longest journey begins with a single step, not the turn of an ignition key. That\u2019s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn\u2019t much matter whether you get where you\u2019re going or not. You\u2019ll get there anyway.\u201d (p. 205)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s eBook copy \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320494953{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227494005-3007c494-135c”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cReason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/i>\u00a0(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 90<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s eBook copy \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227495721-a66820ab-3a68″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cSentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

Beyond the Wall<\/em> (1984) New York: Henry Holt & Co., preface, p. xv<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Book preface \u2013 Written by Abbey in Oracle, Arizona, October 1983]\n

\u201cWe need no more words on the matter. What we need now are heroes. And heroines. About a million of them. One brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.\u201d (p. xv)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Beyond the Wall <\/em>(1984) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-0-03-069299-4[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320502635{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227583620-f193272b-601a”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThere is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience.\u00a0 And then there is California.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 13<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s eBook copy \u2013 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (1989 \u2013 2015 RosettaBooks edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978079534555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227584384-288749ba-b461″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cW<\/strong>ilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

Desert Solitaire<\/em> (1968) New York: Touchstone, p.169<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Non-fiction] \u201cNo, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.\u201d (p. 169)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Desert Solitaire<\/em> (1968 |1990 Touchstone edition), International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-671-6958-6[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320509724{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453227616608-afa319bf-8c9a”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhen a man\u2019s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 102<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cWhy do I write?\u00a0I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record the truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em> (15 August 1989) New\u00a0York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 65<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Abbey also included a similar aphorism on page 60 of the same book: \u201cSome people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I\u2019ve always found the second approach the more pleasing<\/strong>.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cYou can\u2019t study the darkness by flooding it with light.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/strong>, American environmentalist, author & social critic<\/p>\n

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness <\/em>(15 August 1989) New York: Rosetta Books, 2015 eBook edition, p. 90<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6323fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: None. Quote appears as a single aphorism in a collection. In his introduction to A Voice Crying in the Wilderness<\/em>, Abbey describes the \u2018shell\u2019 of the book as \u201ca private journal I\u2019ve been keeping, fairly faithfully, since 1948; a journal now twenty-one volumes long, and this chick, the bird or book, is simply a collection of fragments from that twenty-one-year-old personal record.\u201d (p. ix)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c23fb-3a3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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