“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. — 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
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — 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 industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
