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Edward Abbey Quotes

posted on May 31, 2022

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1) Top 10 Most Famous Edward Abbey Quotes
2) Inspirational Edward Abbey Quotes
3) Edward Abbey Quotes on Success
4) Edward Abbey quotes from ‘Desert Solitaire’
5) Famous Edward Abbey Quotes
6) More Edward Abbey Quotes

Top 10 Most Famous Edward Abbey Quotes

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
— Edward Abbey

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. Edward Abbey Quotes

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
— Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey Quotes

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
— Edward Abbey

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey Quotes

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
— Edward Abbey

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. Edward Abbey Quotes

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey Quotes

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

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey Quotes

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

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
— Edward Abbey

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

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

Inspirational Edward Abbey Quotes

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 paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
— Edward Abbey

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
— Edward Abbey

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep. Edward Abbey Quotes

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
— Edward Abbey

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
— Edward Abbey

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies’ territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
— Edward Abbey

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
— Edward Abbey

I hold no preference among flowers so long as they are wild free spontaneous. Edward Abbey Quotes

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
— Edward Abbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
— Edward Abbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey Quotes

…where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm.
— Edward Abbey

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

Grown men do not need leaders.
— Edward Abbey

Life is already too short to waste on speed.
— Edward Abbey

Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey Quotes

Edward Abbey Quotes on Success

Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
— Edward Abbey

Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Edward Abbey Quotes

Freedom begins between the ears.
— Edward Abbey

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
— Edward Abbey

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. Edward Abbey Quotes

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
— Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
— Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey Quotes

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
— Edward Abbey

I stand for what I stand on.
— Edward Abbey

When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about.
— Edward Abbey

When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about. Edward Abbey Quotes

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
— Edward Abbey

There’s no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment.
— Edward Abbey

There’s no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment. Edward Abbey Quotes

Balance, that’s the secret. Moderate extremism.
— Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey quotes from ‘Desert Solitaire’

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourist can in a hundred miles.
— Edward Abbey

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists.
— Edward Abbey

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. Edward Abbey Quotes

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear – the Earth remains, slightly modified.
— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. Edward Abbey Quotes

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
— Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.
— Edward Abbey

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
— Edward Abbey

Famous Edward Abbey Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
— Edward Abbey

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. Edward Abbey Quotes

A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.
— Edward Abbey

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach.
— Edward Abbey

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach. Edward Abbey Quotes

The best thing about graduating from university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
— Edward Abbey

May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest…
— Edward Abbey

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
— Edward Abbey

I’ve never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn’t have written much better myself.
— Edward Abbey

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. Edward Abbey Quotes

There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
— Edward Abbey

Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
— Edward Abbey

A world without open country would be universal jail.
— Edward Abbey

A world without open country would be universal jail. Edward Abbey Quotes

I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom tailed horses.
— Edward Abbey

In the first place you can’t see anything from a car, you’ve got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thorn bush and cactus.
— Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation the most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that’s patriotism.
— Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation the most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patriotism. Edward Abbey Quotes

More Edward Abbey Quotes

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

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

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
— Edward Abbey

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
— Edward Abbey

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Edward Abbey Quotes

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
— Edward Abbey

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

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. Edward Abbey Quotes

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
— Edward Abbey

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. Edward Abbey Quotes

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
— Edward Abbey

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
— Edward Abbey

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.
— Edward Abbey

If the end does not justify the means – what can?
— Edward Abbey

If the end does not justify the means - what can? Edward Abbey Quotes

Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
— Edward Abbey

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
— Edward Abbey

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey Quotes

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
— Edward Abbey

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
— Edward Abbey

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
— Edward Abbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey Quotes

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