There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
Edward AbbeyTag: natural-beauty
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
Edward AbbeyBenedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.
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To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...
Edward AbbeyTag: history humanity civilization culture clarity inquisition vitality distinction giordano-bruno burnings campo-di-fiori
My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.
Edward AbbeyTag: hiking
They listened for a while to the perfect music of the wind and rain and night. To the fire and the simmering kettle.
Edward AbbeyThe idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
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