There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward AbbeyIn the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
Edward AbbeyThe highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
Edward AbbeyWhen a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
Edward AbbeyIndustrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
Edward Abbey