All Edward Abbey Quotes
- I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living… Adults
- A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. Adults
- For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself. Act
- Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. Black
- The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid. American
- Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. Anton
- In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. Affair
- Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to… Any
- Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail. Concrete
- The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one. Air
- Life is already too short to waste on speed. Life
- And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain. Any
- I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. Evoke
- I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live. Don T
- Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. Alike
- How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling,… Atmosphere
- Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your… Adventure
- Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. Bad
- What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up. Brought
- Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… All
- We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,… Adventure
- Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your… Air
- The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. Begins
- It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in… All
- We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and… All