Edward Abbey Quotes
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.



If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws



God bless America. Let's save some of it.



An empty man is full of himself.



The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.



The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key



May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.



The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.



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.



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



Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together



Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game



Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero



Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime



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








A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z