I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

[Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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 county commissioners. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

To live life is to take risks; to always be safe and secure is death. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Women who love only women may have a good point. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry, and other bad habits. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

And I am struck once again by the unutterable beauty, terror, and strangeness of everything we think we know. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. #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

The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

You cannot see wilderness from a road. What you see from a road is something different- a scene, a panorama, a picture; but you do not feel anything. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. #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

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

As Mark Twain said, "I love Wagner--if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!" #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. #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

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey