Edward Abbey Quotes
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.
Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors; his novel Hayduke Lives; and his essay collections Down the River (with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends) (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
