I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.


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For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (...
EDWARD ABBEY
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to...
EDWARD ABBEY
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing ...
EDWARD ABBEY
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...
EDWARD ABBEY
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
EDWARD ABBEY
That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get wher...
EDWARD ABBEY
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, an...
EDWARD ABBEY
Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
EDWARD ABBEY
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never ...
EDWARD ABBEY
I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the w...
EDWARD ABBEY
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...
EDWARD ABBEY
I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff...
EDWARD ABBEY
It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
EDWARD ABBEY
Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, ...
EDWARD ABBEY
If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking
EDWARD ABBEY
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they...
EDWARD ABBEY
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY