It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — 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
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty… — 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
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets --… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the… — 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
“Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to… — 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
“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — 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
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