Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. – Edward Abbey
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. – Edward Abbey
Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. – Edward Abbey
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) – Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey
Freedom begins between the ears. – Edward Abbey
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. – Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
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. – Edward Abbey
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. – Edward Abbey
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey
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. – Edward Abbey
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! – Edward Abbey
