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
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that… — 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
Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — 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
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — 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
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy,… — 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
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — 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
We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement… — 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
