Nature Quotes by Edward Abbey

There are no vacant lots in nature.

— Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

— Edward Abbey

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

— Edward Abbey

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

— Edward Abbey

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

— Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

— Edward Abbey

“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.”

— Edward Abbey

“My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don’t know anything else worth saving.”

— Edward Abbey

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

— Edward Abbey

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

— Edward Abbey

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time…

— Edward Abbey

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are…

— Edward Abbey

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious…

— Edward Abbey

“We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living…

— Edward Abbey

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes…

— Edward Abbey

“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,…

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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a…

— Edward Abbey

“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another…

— Edward Abbey

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the…

— Edward Abbey

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind…

— Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need…

— Edward Abbey

“The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility…

— Edward Abbey

“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if…

— Edward Abbey

How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,…

— Edward Abbey

“The entertainment palled. Fatigue like gravitation pulled at limbs and eyelids. As they had come so they departed, first Abbzug, then the…

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good…

— Edward Abbey

“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there…

— Edward Abbey

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For…

— Edward Abbey

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support…

— Edward Abbey

“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness?…

— Edward Abbey

“Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to…

— Edward Abbey

“In clear-cutting, he said, you clear away the natural forest, or what the industrial forester calls "weed trees," and plant all one…

— Edward Abbey

“This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind…

— Edward Abbey

“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father…

— Edward Abbey

“Why this cult of wilderness? Why the surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well,…

— Edward Abbey

“the wilderness should be preserved for political reasons. We may need it someday not only as a refuge from excessive industrialism but…

— Edward Abbey

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

— Edward Abbey