Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Abbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Edward Abbey

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Edward Abbey

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Edward Abbey