Edward Abbey

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#culture #first #gasoline #like #often

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ↗

— Edward Abbey

#among #black #bricks #flowers #free

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#failure #imagination #reflects #supernatural

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#evil #hell #neither #neoconservatives #new

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#sheep #taxation

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

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

— Edward Abbey

#experience #logic #reason #science #then

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

— Edward Abbey

#best friend #dog #friend #his #man

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#climbing #done #floating #grand #grand canyon

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

#above #amazing #clouds #crooked #dangerous