{"author":"Edward Abbey","author_id":"Edward+Abbey","total_quotes":109,"quotes":[{"text":"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["being-right","being-wrong","right","wrong"],"id":585,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then —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.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["adventure","blessing","desert","nature","wilderness"],"id":5756,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["creativity","individuality","innovation"],"id":6372,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["action","books","deeds","heroes","ruin","sentiment","soul"],"id":6724,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["death","desert"],"id":9035,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["truth"],"id":9427,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["books","bravery","desert","sacrifice"],"id":10561,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["mountains","clouds","amazing "],"id":11927,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["arizona","capitalism","economy","new-mexico"],"id":18814,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["age"],"id":21625,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":109,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}