Earth Quotes by Edward Abbey

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

— Edward Abbey

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.

— Edward Abbey

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

— Edward Abbey

All living things on earth are kindred.

— 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

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

— Edward Abbey

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our…

— Edward Abbey

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

— Edward Abbey

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth…

— 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

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

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— Edward Abbey

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

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

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy…

— Edward Abbey

“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty…

— 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

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

— Edward Abbey

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

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave…

— Edward Abbey

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,…

— Edward Abbey

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual…

— Edward Abbey

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

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant…

— Edward Abbey