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

Edward Abbey book Down the River

Source: Down the River (1982), p. 81

“Enjoy our great American West -- climb those mountains, run those rivers, hike those canyons, explore those forests, and share in the bounty of wilderness, friendship, love, and the common effort to save what we love. Do this and we will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves.”

Remarks https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edward-abbey-remarks-glen-canyon-dam-spring-equinox-1981, Glen Canyon Dam, Spring Equinox 1981.

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. 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 book Down the River

"Down the River", p. 148
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.”

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

“My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.”

Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang

George Hayduke, page 229
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“What's more American than violence?”

Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang

Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)