For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we… — 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
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — 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,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved… — 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
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their… — 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
