We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Wilderness, wilderness...We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile the doctor was saying, “The reason there are so many people on the river these days is because there are too… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The entertainment palled. Fatigue like gravitation pulled at limbs and eyelids. As they had come so they departed, first Abbzug, then the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — 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
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
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living… — 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
