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

- Edward Abbey

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

- Edward Abbey

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

- Edward Abbey

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

- Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

- 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

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

- Edward Abbey

Grown men do not need leaders.

- 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

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

- 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

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

- 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

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

- 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

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

- 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

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

- Edward Abbey

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

- Edward Abbey

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

- Edward Abbey