Quotes by : Edward Abbey

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT....

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because....

The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over....

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive....

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much....

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries....

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.....