Quotes from Edward Abbey

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

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.

Fortune Cookies. — Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.