Best Edward Abbey Sayings
- There are no vacant lots in nature. Inspirational
- Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. Indifferent
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,… Along
- Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. Bullshit
- Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend… Anything Else
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and… Afghanistan
- What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… Any
- Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the… Baseball
- How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off… Beef
- A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. All
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… All
- We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Escape
- The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. Best
- Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine… Aspen
- Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. Balance
- Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette. Every Man
- The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war. All
- The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. Bigger
- We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. Labor
- Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. Accompanied
- I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… Anyone
- In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,… Begin
- If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate… America
- A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army… Anyone
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of… Actual
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