25 Ornery Aphorisms by Edward Abbey

The American writer Edward Abbey was an anarchist, an environmentalist, a desert wanderer, and an absolute joy to read. He was known by his friends as “Cactus Ed.” No one, I believe, has written more poetically than he about the southwest landscape of America. The desert to Abbey was like Walden Pond to Thoreau — a place that transcends everyday reality and revives the cultural-induced slumber of our primitive spirit. He writes in <a href="https://amzn.to/3Evsdsd" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Desert Solitaire</a>: “I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it’s possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us.” Abbey wrote 21 books in his 62 years of life on this planet. Below are a few of my favorite witty aphorisms by Cactus Ed that you can find in his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3qWKGuN" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A Voice Crying in the Wilderness.</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@erikrittenberry/25-ornery-aphorisms-by-edward-abbey-d7074679f941">Read More</a>