Edward Abbey: Man

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”

“An empty man is full of himself.”

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.”

“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”

“I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.”

“In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.”

“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”