Quotes by : Edward Abbey

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the....

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can....

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

One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with....

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.....

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we....

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked,....

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action.....

Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the....