An empty man is full of himself.

Edward Abbey

Stichwörter: insightful



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Humanity has four and a half billion passionate advocates - but how many speak....for the gray wolf?....it is a man's duty to speak for the voiceless. A woman's obligation to aid the defenseless. Human needs do not take precedence over other forms of life; we must share this lovely, delicate, vapor-clouded little planet with all

Edward Abbey


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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.

Edward Abbey

Stichwörter: philosophy nature time space



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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Edward Abbey


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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

Edward Abbey


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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

Stichwörter: depression modern-life cures depression-humor cure-diseases-without-medicines



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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Edward Abbey

Stichwörter: tyranny wit oppression government totalitarianism subversion



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Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Edward Abbey

Stichwörter: politics democracy anarchy anarchism



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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.

Edward Abbey


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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.

Edward Abbey


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