A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence… — 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
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making… — 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
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — 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
