A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
– Edward Abbey
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
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
– 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
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
– 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
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
– 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
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
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
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
– 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
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
– Edward Abbey
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
– 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
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
– Edward Abbey
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
– Edward Abbey
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
– Edward Abbey
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
