The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — 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 come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In clear-cutting, he said, you clear away the natural forest, or what the industrial forester calls "weed trees," and plant all one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. — 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
“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
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. — 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,… — 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
