Quotes by : Edward Abbey

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

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

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression....

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

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

Not all questions can be answered.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards....

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that....

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