“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need – if only we had the eyes to see.” - Edward Abbey
“We greet each other, sun and I, across the black void of ninety-three million miles.”
“The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.”
“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
"Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris." - Edward Abbey
"The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space." - Edward Abbey
"All gold is fool's gold." - Edward Abbey
“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 surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never in my life get to Alaska, for example, but I am grateful that it’s there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.” - Edward Abbey
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
"God bless America. Let's save some of it." - Edward Abbey
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey
"There are two kinds art: (1) decorative, nonobjective, wallpaper art; and (2) art with a moral purpose." - Edward Abbey"Wilderness begins in the human mind." - Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear - the earth remains , slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break.” - Edward Abbey
"The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature." - Edward Abbey
"The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically." - Edward Abbey
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light." - Edward Abbey
“When the cities are gone and all the ruckus has died away. when sunflowers push up through the concrete and asphalt of the forgotten interstate freeways. when the Kremlin & the Pentagon are turned into nursing homes for generals, presidents, & other such shit heads. when the glass-aluminum sky scraper tombs of Phoenix, AZ barely show above the sand dunes. why then, by God, maybe free men & wild women on horses can roam the sagebrush canyonlands in freedom...and dance all night to the music of fiddles! banjos! steel guitars! by the light of a reborn moon!” - Edward Abbey
“The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.” - Edward Abbey
"Again the fire begins to fail. Letting it die, I take my walking stick and go for a stroll down the road into the thickening darkness. I have a flashlight with me but will not use it unless I hear some sign of animal life worthy of investigation. The flashlight, or electrical torch as the English call it, is a useful instrument in certain situations but I can see the road well enough without it. Better, in fact." - Edward Abbey
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture - that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”- Edward Abbey
“Keep America Beautiful. Grow a Beard. Take a Bath. Burn a Billboard." - Edward Abbey
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!
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