Life without music would be an intolerable insult. #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

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I stand for what I stand on. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. #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

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

But don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money. #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

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. #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

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. #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

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

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. #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

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. #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 beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey