The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. — 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
“Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a… — 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
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery… — 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
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — 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
