If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
Edward AbbeyBe loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward AbbeyThe most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Edward AbbeyI 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.
Edward Abbey