All Edward Abbey Quotes
- I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses. Best
- If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out… Across
- I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. Alas
- Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a… Bitter
- Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is… Any
- England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. Country
- I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned. All
- America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. Abolish
- A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where… Alike
- A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes. Defend
- The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of… Blue
- The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they… Always Performed
- Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. All
- Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… Age
- Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space… Alaska
- Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. Buzzards
- The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself.… Anyway Every
- Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that… All
- A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… Bison
- One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role… Cities
- Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get… Advocacy
- Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of… Advocacy
- Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is… Anticipation
- The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children.… Abused
- The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. Alcohol