Left Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Left Nature Saving Wilderness
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. — George Aiken Copy Share Image
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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