If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the… — 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
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
At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live. — 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
