Happy Birthday Ed Abbey

Deborah · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 297 Location: Tucson

Today is Ed Abbey's 82 birthday.
Post a favorite saying here!
Here's one of mine to start:

"There is to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog."
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. - Rachel Carson

Al_HikesAZ · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 263 Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Happy Birthday Ed - wherever you are

"Do not jump into your automobile next June and rush out to the Canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the...cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something, maybe." Edward Abbey
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Anyone can make a hike harder. The skill comes in making it easier. Dosatéhigo nasádo

mmacmike · Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 123 Location: New York

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abby
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." Edward Abbey

dabreeze · Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 50

"life not crowded upon life . . . scattered abroad in spareness
and simplicity. . . . love flowers best in openness and freedom."

"wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life. now it functions as
a psychiatric refuge. soon there will be no place to go. then the
madness becomes universal. and the universe goes mad."

Matt Hoffman · Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH

"What are you doing out here? Go away!" Ed Abby
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GeorgAz · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 809 Location: Scottsdale

" May your trails be dim,lonesome,stony, narrow,winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire.may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night."

Met the Man, spoke with him, got my Desert Solitaire signed,, ( tried to get him to have a brew with us), truly a gift, I feel blessed.