All Edward Abbey Quotes
- Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong --… Behind
- Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops. Always Willing
- Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and… Behind
- A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can… Adventure
- An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. All
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… Adventure
- If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… Apparent
- Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. Clarifies
- There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… Annihilated
- Freedom begins between the ears. Begins
- A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… All
- The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country,… Begin
- What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is… Action
- Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Beyond
- Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water… Among
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… Abrasion
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Action
- I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism. Best
- My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and… Ability
- Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. Cult
- Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the… Always Impressed
- When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. Afraid
- I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. Atheist
- A pretty girl can do no wrong. Girl
- A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take… Alive