One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I approach nature with a surly ill-will, daring Her to make trouble. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Books are like eggs--best when fresh. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Love flowers best in openness and freedom. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Wilderness begins in the human mind. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

This is what you shall do: Be loyal to what you love, Be true to the Earth, and Fight your enemies with passion and laughter. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

An empty man is full of himself. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Music is a savage art, a measured madness. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government," I says, "but don't insult me poor bleedin' country." #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Every moment is precious. And precarious. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

This is what you shall do: Be loyal to what you love, Be true to the Earth, and Fight your enemies with passion and laughter. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey