Edward Abbey Quotes
“Ugly brutes, bound for a summer in the high meadows and
then the slaughterhouse – too bloody good for them, I was thinking.” (28)
“He had good luck – I
envy him the manner of his going: to die alone, on rock under sun at the brink
of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune
indeed.” (70)
“The plow of mortality drives through the stubble, turns
over rocks and sod and weeds to cover the old, the worn-out, the husks, shells,
empty seedpods and sapless roots, clearing the field for the next crop.” (72)
Thanks for posting the Abbey quotes. I really like both of the bottom two. Abbey does see death as a natural part of the organic life cycle. I think this also relates to his descriptions of cattle, as in the first quote.
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