How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — 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
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave… — 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
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — 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
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. — 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
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
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 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
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
Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant… — 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
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
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
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
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — 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
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — 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
