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
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — 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
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — 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
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good… — 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
