Quotes from book
Down the River

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.

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