Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — 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
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned. — 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
