Good horse Quote by Edward Abbey

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…

— Edward Abbey

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

— Edward Abbey

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

— Edward Abbey

“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

— Edward Abbey

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…

— Edward Abbey

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

— Edward Abbey

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

— Edward Abbey

“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the…

— Edward Abbey

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

— Edward Abbey

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…

— Edward Abbey

“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave…

— Edward Abbey