A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — 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?… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don’t know anything else worth saving.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the wilderness should be preserved for political reasons. We may need it someday not only as a refuge from excessive industrialism but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Why this cult of wilderness? Why the surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are… — 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
