All Edward Abbey Quotes
- Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. Adore
- Wilderness begins in the human mind. Begins
- I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. America
- Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I… Abyssinia
- 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 that… All
- What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. Desert
- I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal. Animal
- Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people. Bear
- All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. All
- In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food. All
- The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. Beak
- The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. Corporation
- Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. All
- Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern… Best
- The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. Entire
- Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. Albert
- The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? Been
- Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during… Approximate
- It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. Death
- Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony. Colony
- The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically. Basic
- Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the… Demonstrates
- The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! Exists
- Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the… Ass
- Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. Academic