“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
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
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 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
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave. — 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
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
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each… — 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
“Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then,… — 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
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
“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
“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth… — 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
“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 comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools… — 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
