Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
Edward AbbeyWriters should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.
Edward AbbeyI always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Edward AbbeyThe love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
Edward Abbey