There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no… — 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
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest… — 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
