Quotes by "Edward Abbey"
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
