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
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
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The more I dim my eyes over print and frazzle my brain over abstract ideas, the more I appreciate the delight of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony. — 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
