All Edward Abbey Quotes
- Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we… Actual
- Simplicity is always a virtue. Inspirational
- All living things on earth are kindred. All
- All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary… All
- To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger.… Comrade
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,… All
- In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) Afternoon
- Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. Air
- I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood… Behind
- So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a… Day
- A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. Afford
- The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert… Available
- Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth. Blind
- I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But… All
- I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake. Humanist
- Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair. Course
- The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… Act
- It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it. Clear
- What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude,… Bill
- May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on… Amuse
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… Across
- If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few… Accept
- 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 cannot comprehend and… Abbey
- The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. Bombers
- There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.… Adapt