In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
Edward AbbeyThe missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
Edward AbbeyNo man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
Edward AbbeySimplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
Edward Abbey