Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — 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
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery… — 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
