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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The dog’s life is a good life, for a dog (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Life is already too short to waste on speed (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Simplicity is always a virtue (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders (Edward Abbey Quotes)
A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws (Edward Abbey Quotes)
But it is a writer’s duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do (Edward Abbey Quotes)
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already (Edward Abbey Quotes)
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything (Edward Abbey Quotes)
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you’ve lived (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He’s trying to slip something over on you. Or into you (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that’s patrotism (Edward Abbey Quotes)
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That’s my fantasy (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Why can’t we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience (Edward Abbey Quotes)