My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was… — 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
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — 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
