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  Edward Abbey: Rebel Voice In The Desert

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a naturalist and writer who has been called the Thoreau of the West. His best book was "Desert Solitaire," a collection of nature observations, philosophy and social criticism written after he spent a year alone as a park ranger in the Utah desert. He also wrote fiction that was made into two films, including Kirk Douglas' favorite movie that he starred in, "Lonely Are The Brave."

QUOTES:

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

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

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other -- instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

All power rests on hierarchy. An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour. There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

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