Quotes from book
Down the River

Down the River is a book by Edward Abbey, published in 1982. It is a loose collection of autobiographical and philosophical essays about the wilderness, written between 1978 and 1982.
“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
Source: Down the River (1982), p. 81
“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.”
Down the River (1982)
Context: Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
"Down the River", p. 148
Desert Solitaire (1968)