Civilization Quote by Edward Abbey

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A…

— Edward Abbey

We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.

— Newton B. Drury

We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.

— Newton B. Drury

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

— Judi Bari

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

— Oscar Wilde

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

— Ronald Wright

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has…

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey