A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans… And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share
