Items by Edward Abbey

Desert skin
An essay by Edward Abbey, praising the austere beauty of the Colorado Plateau, is illustrated by Thomas R. Miller's aerial photographs.
Edward Abbey Opinion Essay Aug. 7, 1995 From the print edition
Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Excerpts from Edward Abbey's introduction to a new edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
Edward Abbey Oct. 2, 1981 From the print edition
God bless America. Let's save some of it.
My ideas on "something different" therefore are offered only because it seems to me that our society is already much too authoritarian, and because certain trends, supported by a blind and misapplied technology, are leading toward an ever more authoritarian, centralized, potentially totalitarian state.
Edward Abbey May 19, 1978 From the print edition
Telluride blues, a hatchet job
Telluride, Colorado, formerly an honest, decayed little mining town of about 300 souls, is now a bustling whore of a ski resort with a population of 1,500 and many more to come.
Edward Abbey Oct. 22, 1976 From the print edition
Joy, shipmates, joy!
Excerpts from a speech delivered by Edward Abbey at a conference in Vail, Colorado. "I say the industrialization of the Rocky Mountain West is not inevitable and that to plan for such a catastrophe is to invite it ..."
Edward Abbey Sept. 24, 1976 From the print edition
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