All Edward Abbey Quotes
- I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand… America
- All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? All
- Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where… Appear
- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Better
- We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery. All
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) Beautiful
- When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. Hopeless
- The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,… Beyong
- From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. Appetite
- I stand for what I stand on. Funny
- The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Best
- We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have… Abilities
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws. Bulldozers
- Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. Earth
- I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware… Behind
- A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time. Giant
- most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into… Alone
- High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a… Building
- Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our… Anarchism
- "If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as… Abbey
- Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. Brain
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. Alike
- I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of… All
- Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my… Anyone
- Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. Ah