What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. Edward Abbey More Quotes by Edward Abbey More Quotes From Edward Abbey I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet. Edward Abbey animalmenchildren What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up. Edward Abbey truthsorryknows I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. Edward Abbey metsknowsreality Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work. Edward Abbey capitalismtheorysound Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation. Edward Abbey foundationpassionchildren Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. Edward Abbey climbingfunadventure You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. Edward Abbey human-beingshuman-naturehumans Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. Edward Abbey jailgivingmen The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. Edward Abbey richdemocracyway Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? Edward Abbey readingmindhands In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising. Edward Abbey risinglevelsamerica We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. Edward Abbey duelingpracticemight I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. Edward Abbey fastidiousfellowsnuts Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not? Edward Abbey coffeemorningnight We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most? Edward Abbey suicidehomebook The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining. Edward Abbey shoppingspeaks-outrivers How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? Edward Abbey controversialinterestintellectual We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails. Edward Abbey crazyheartadventure I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way. Edward Abbey unnecessaryresistanceway Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing. Edward Abbey favorite-hobbyhobbiesworld
