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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
Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
— Edward Abbey
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
— Edward Abbey
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
— Edward Abbey
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
— Edward Abbey
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
— Edward Abbey
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
— Edward Abbey
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
— Edward Abbey
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
— Edward Abbey
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
— Edward Abbey
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
— Edward Abbey
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
— Edward Abbey
Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
— Edward Abbey
Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
— Edward Abbey
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
— Edward Abbey
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
— Edward Abbey
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
— Edward Abbey
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
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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
Grow a beard, take a bath, burn a billboard
— Edward Abbey
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
— Edward Abbey
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
— Edward Abbey
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
— Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
— Edward Abbey
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
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
— Edward Abbey
Poetry even bad poetry
may be our final hope. — Edward Abbey
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
— Edward Abbey
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
— Edward Abbey
SHUT THE MILK UP ABBEY hahaha something with the fam.
— Edward Abbey
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
— Edward Abbey
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
— Edward Abbey
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
— Edward Abbey
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
— Edward Abbey
Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.
— Edward Abbey
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
— Edward Abbey
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
— Edward Abbey
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
— Edward Abbey
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
— Edward Abbey
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey
A world without open country would be universal jail.
— Edward Abbey
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
— Edward Abbey
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
— Edward Abbey
As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
— Edward Abbey
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
— Edward Abbey
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
— Edward Abbey
Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
— Edward Abbey
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
Why this cult of wilderness? ... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
— Edward Abbey
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
— Edward Abbey
Wilderness. The word itself is music.
— 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
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
— Edward Abbey
