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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men (Edward Abbey Quotes)
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel (Edward Abbey Quotes)
When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense (Edward Abbey Quotes)
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles (Edward Abbey Quotes)
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human (Edward Abbey Quotes)
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making (Edward Abbey Quotes)
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger (Edward Abbey Quotes)
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in (Edward Abbey Quotes)
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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 of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy... Speaking of paranoia, it’s true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I’m paranoid (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don’t believe in happy endings is because I don’t believe in endings (Edward Abbey Quotes)
If it’s knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more (Edward Abbey Quotes)
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I’ve encountered some unnecessary resistance that’s because most of the traffic is going the other way (Edward Abbey Quotes)
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow (Edward Abbey Quotes)
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep (Edward Abbey Quotes)