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

#provide #purpose #shade #tiny #tree

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad? ↗

— Edward Abbey

#edward-abbey #fear #freedom #the-monkey-wrench-gang #wilderness

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#business

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#environmentalism #slum #wilderness #zoo #environmentalism

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#art

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

#philosophy #space #time #love

How become a writer? Naturally. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#nature

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#environmentalism #wilderness #environmentalism

My friends and I live in the American SW because we love it, and love it for its own sake - not merely because it's the last region of the forty-eight states to be buried under asphalt and greed. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#love

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#age