Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement… — 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
“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk,… — 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
“Meanwhile the doctor was saying, “The reason there are so many people on the river these days is because there are too… — 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
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — 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
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Wilderness, wilderness...We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty… — 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
