Available Quote by Edward Abbey

“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.”

— Edward Abbey

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in…

— Robyn Davidson

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its…

— Jean Baudrillard

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

— Washington Allston

A desert is a place without expectation.

— Nadine Gordimer

First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt"…

— Thomas Merton

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

“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to…

— Thomas Merton

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

— Cotton Mather

One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement,…

— Benton MacKaye

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go…

— Edward Abbey