“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way… — 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
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know… — 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
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible… — 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
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
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists… — 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
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — 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
