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“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

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”

Edward Abbey

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Why this cult of wilderness?… because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.”

Edward Abbey

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”

Edward Abbey

“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.”

Edward Abbey

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

Edward Abbey

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”

Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43

“I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”

Edward Abbey

“The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast