The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

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. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing. #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

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) #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

If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams. #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

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

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

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

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

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Desire lends strength. Aspiration creates inspiration, which, for the artist, is the breath of life. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.' #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. #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

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!) #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

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

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last #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

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders. #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

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. #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

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco. #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

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey