A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
Edward AbbeyWe are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
Edward AbbeyAny hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
Edward Abbey