"Do not jump into your automobile next June and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something, maybe. Probably not. In the second place most of what I write about in this book is already gone or going under fast. This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A memorial. You're holding a tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock. Don't drop it on your foot -- throw it at something big and glassy. What do you have to lose?"
-Edward Abbey
"Freedom begins between the ears."
-Edward Abbey
"I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park."
-Edward Abbey
"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about."
-Edward Abbey
"I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are
wild, free, spontaneous."
-Edward Abbey
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,
leading to the most amazing view..."
-Edward Abbey
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Take your hat off to no man."
-Edward Abbey
"What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse."
-Edward Abbey
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
-Edward Abbey
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
-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
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing
cares about nothing."
-Edward Abbey
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
-Edward Abbey
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