25 result(s) for Ed Abbey Quotes.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
"God made the world round so we would not see too far down the road."
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness."
"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and economists."
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real efficiency, nothing beats a committee."
"The best remedy for despair is living outside."
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
"Our technology is простий our humanity."
"I am an American and a patriot. Until I am shown a better way, I shall defend my country against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
"It is life, not death, that has no limits."
"Man is a geological agent."
"I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. That is the purpose of my writing."
"I want to be buried in a simple pine box in a rock-strewn gulch in sight of the place where the wind-carved red rocks meet the desert. Near Moab, Utah. That's the place. "
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
"My ownську belief is that if enough people feel something is important, it will happen."
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"Our culture is based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady-state economy for garbage."
"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need – if only we had the eyes to see."
"We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never see another wild chimpanzee. But I know they're there. And knowing they're there is important."
"No one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
