Logo
Quote by Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading

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

Other quotes by Edward Abbey

Thats the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesnt matter much whether you get where youre going or not. Youll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. – Edward Abbey

Category:
Walking
Author
Edward Abbey
Read Quote

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

Category:
Nature
Author
Edward Abbey
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
category

I cannot get that beautiful afternoon out of my head, above me where I lay the grass was silhouetted against the blue of the heavens, small clouds were rushing past as the wind drove them on an endless journey. – Julia Lee-Booker, letter to Pat McSwiney, 1940 July 24

Category:
Sky & Clouds

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

Category:
Sky & Clouds

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. – Willa Sibert Cather

Category:
Sky & Clouds

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Sky & Clouds

Random Quotes

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Category:
Music

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. – Robert Staughton Lynd

Category:
Knowledge

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. – Plato

Category:
Change

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

Category:
History