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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 29, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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I am an Abbey fan, and came across this video filmed in 1986
http://vimeo.com/49544042
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Jan 29, 2013 - 11:32am PT
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"only outlaws can save the wilderness"
that's one of my favorite Abbey lines.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 29, 2013 - 11:42am PT
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Didn't we already have an Abbey thread?
I named a beautiful tower that is not visible from a road after him.
He floated by it 5 times over the years, each time with the late Joy Unritch.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 29, 2013 - 11:54am PT
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I think we did have one (and Abbey thread).
Today happens to be his birthday. Would have been 86.
One of my favorites is "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." Many, many others as well.
Eric
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 29, 2013 - 12:07pm PT
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Not sure why this is off topic?
Abbey was a lovable, prickly, exasperating, imperfect, provocative, flawed, bluntly honest, highly intelligent and insightful, articulate to the point of being poetic lover of the outdoors and many other things. Almost always entertaining regardless of the subject.
Sounds a lot like some of the folks around here! Ha!
Eric
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 29, 2013 - 12:18pm PT
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"the problem isn't the trash by the highway, the problem is the highway"
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 29, 2013 - 12:22pm PT
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http://vimeo.com/41319363
DamNation Trailer featuring a cameo appearance by Cactus Ed.
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HHL
Trad climber
Stumpcreek, WV
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:16pm PT
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Happy B-day Ed. His books changed my life! He was able to put into words the thoughts I didn't know I even had.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:45pm PT
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The Coal Will Eventually Run Out
"If we want to create a long term civilization here in the west, or North America, I think eventually we're going to have to rely on renewable resources, like sunlight...and grass, and trees, surface water,....running water. But I realize that this is utopian kind of thinking. Most people in Arizona, or the United States for that matter don't take it seriously. The people that run this country assume that technology and science will rescue us each time, from our own...foolishness. And so far it might appear that they've been right. However we burn up the planet, then I suppose we'll try to export the human species into outer space. Space colonies, colonize the Moon, Venus, Mars.... That's what I would call real crackpot thinking."
Edward Abbey, 1982
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:48pm PT
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^^^ I hear him rolling over in his grave as lunar mining could start within two years.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:52pm PT
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Is there a cheese shortage?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 29, 2013 - 02:04pm PT
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Is there a cheese shortage?
What? Oh..wait....cheese...moon.....I get it.....
"I find nuclear power very unappealing. First of all because it's undemocratic. It centralizes control. It puts our lives and livelihoods in the hands of a very few people, probably one big utility, one big public agency, over which the public has very little control."
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 29, 2013 - 02:55pm PT
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 29, 2013 - 03:14pm PT
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"Environmentalism has a very good future. The worse the environment gets, the more popular environmentalism will become."
Edward Abbey 1982
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curt wohlgemuth
Social climber
Bay Area, California
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Jan 29, 2013 - 04:55pm PT
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"The fu&%'in fu&%er's fu&%ed" -- Monkey Wrench Gang
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Crackslayer
Trad climber
Eldo
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Jan 29, 2013 - 07:59pm PT
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My favorite author by far. I have read all of his books, many multiple times. If only we lived in the world Abbey wanted for us. I didn't know it was his bday today, awesome!
One of my college professors found his grave with his other friend. I think I was the only student he ever told that, probably because most kids would have been like "you walked through the desert for days to find some dead authors grave? WTF?." But I was really psyched when he told me. Anyways, I encourage everyone to pick up their monkey wrench gang and do some reading!
God Bless America, Let's Save Some Of It
Abbey
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 29, 2013 - 08:10pm PT
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It is great that he had a clandestine burial in the desert.
He was one the few people who could piss off rednecks and hippies to an equal degree.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jan 30, 2013 - 06:39pm PT
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"if you aint a cowboy you aint shti-.......hmmmmm food for thought that........."
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shady
Trad climber
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Jan 31, 2013 - 12:23pm PT
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Speaking of rolling over in his grave, there are plans to build a nuclear power plant near the city of Green river Utah, and draw water from the Green river for cooling.
Kinda like the worlds largest middle finger being lifted to Ed.
May the offspring of the monkey wrench gang descend on this project like a......well....like a really big monkey wrench gang.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 31, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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Kind of makes you want to believe in the afterlife. Can you imagine Ed's ghost plaguing the Green River Plant?
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 31, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
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> It is great that he had a clandestine burial in the desert.
Hear, hear! I can't remember where I read an account of that, but I found it to be quite moving, maybe because I've read so much of his work.
> He was one the few people who could piss off rednecks and hippies to an equal degree.
Yes, loved that about him. He did not suffer ideologues and was so adroit with his language he could take out swaths with his pen and they wouldn't even know it sometimes.
I think he represented the kind of Dad I always wanted. Would have taught me a lot, not just from a technical skill point of view, but also how to think. We wouldn't have agreed on everything and probably had some good father/son conflicts, but in the end, through those struggles, we'd have gotten to know each other better, gained respect and would have grown our love.
He probably would tell me what I just wrote was full of it, but way more eloquently!
Eric
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