Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. — 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
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — 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
