What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (...
EDWARD ABBEY We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of ...
EDWARD ABBEY Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to...
EDWARD ABBEY Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing ...
EDWARD ABBEY We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...
EDWARD ABBEY WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
EDWARD ABBEY That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get wher...
EDWARD ABBEY No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, an...
EDWARD ABBEY Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
EDWARD ABBEY We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never ...
EDWARD ABBEY I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the w...
EDWARD ABBEY One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...
EDWARD ABBEY I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff...
EDWARD ABBEY It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
EDWARD ABBEY Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, ...
EDWARD ABBEY If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking
EDWARD ABBEY Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they...
EDWARD ABBEY You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the s...
EDWARD ABBEY Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
EDWARD ABBEY May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your...
EDWARD ABBEY The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enou...
EDWARD ABBEY Grown men do not need leaders.
EDWARD ABBEY Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
EDWARD ABBEY Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me po...
EDWARD ABBEY Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop ...
EDWARD ABBEY What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide s...
EDWARD ABBEY Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell...
EDWARD ABBEY The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enem...
EDWARD ABBEY A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
EDWARD ABBEY For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks ...
EDWARD ABBEY Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
EDWARD ABBEY The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
EDWARD ABBEY When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum float...
EDWARD ABBEY Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
EDWARD ABBEY There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...
EDWARD ABBEY You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
EDWARD ABBEY One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin...
EDWARD ABBEY [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above...
EDWARD ABBEY Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
EDWARD ABBEY The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few...
EDWARD ABBEY Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even ...
EDWARD ABBEY My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume th...
EDWARD ABBEY Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
EDWARD ABBEY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the del...
EDWARD ABBEY One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a busines...
EDWARD ABBEY In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a st...
EDWARD ABBEY "One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a par...
EDWARD ABBEY A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with ...
EDWARD ABBEY The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
EDWARD ABBEY When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in troubl...
EDWARD ABBEY Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
EDWARD ABBEY It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world—Nature—is the only means by which we ...
EDWARD ABBEY When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that ...
EDWARD ABBEY Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator m...
EDWARD ABBEY Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of ex...
EDWARD ABBEY Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of ...
EDWARD ABBEY If the end does not justify the means - what can?
EDWARD ABBEY You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell
EDWARD ABBEY As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...
EDWARD ABBEY In fact, I suspect that our only hope is disaster. Cruel tho' it is to say it, there has got to be a...
EDWARD ABBEY Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not...
EDWARD ABBEY A drink a day keeps the shrink away
EDWARD ABBEY Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
EDWARD ABBEY The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough a...
EDWARD ABBEY When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem
EDWARD ABBEY The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...
EDWARD ABBEY A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...
EDWARD ABBEY Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
EDWARD ABBEY Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
EDWARD ABBEY Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
EDWARD ABBEY But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
EDWARD ABBEY To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...
EDWARD ABBEY Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it ...
EDWARD ABBEY Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as ...
EDWARD ABBEY How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized ...
EDWARD ABBEY This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of ...
EDWARD ABBEY May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
EDWARD ABBEY Not all questions can be answered.
EDWARD ABBEY How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
EDWARD ABBEY The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real ...
EDWARD ABBEY Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bomb...
EDWARD ABBEY I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect ...
EDWARD ABBEY Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
EDWARD ABBEY Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every...
EDWARD ABBEY Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human bei...
EDWARD ABBEY Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much...
EDWARD ABBEY I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than...
EDWARD ABBEY Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They a...
EDWARD ABBEY I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze o...
EDWARD ABBEY A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers a...
EDWARD ABBEY In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a s...
EDWARD ABBEY If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an ho...
EDWARD ABBEY I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangi...
EDWARD ABBEY I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is becau...
EDWARD ABBEY A house built on greed cannot long endure.
EDWARD ABBEY Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and o...
EDWARD ABBEY When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If t...
EDWARD ABBEY Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.
EDWARD ABBEY Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are real...
EDWARD ABBEY I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...
EDWARD ABBEY There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to d...
EDWARD ABBEY In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.
EDWARD ABBEY Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality o...
EDWARD ABBEY A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
EDWARD ABBEY One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or di...
EDWARD ABBEY They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquer...
EDWARD ABBEY My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...
EDWARD ABBEY How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build you...
EDWARD ABBEY This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Ta...
EDWARD ABBEY We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soari...
EDWARD ABBEY I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.
ABBEY CLANCY But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if someb...
ABBEY LINCOLN There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a qua...
ABBEY LINCOLN I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and...
ABBEY LINCOLN I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and i...
ABBEY LINCOLN I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes...
ABBEY LINCOLN I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did...
ABBEY LINCOLN Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your sk...
ABBEY CLANCY My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
ABBEY CLANCY My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it woul...
ABBEY CLANCY I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
ABBEY CLANCY I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
ABBEY CLANCY Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pi...
ABBEY CLANCY I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll nev...
ABBEY CLANCY I always take my make-up off before bed.
ABBEY CLANCY I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror...
ABBEY CLANCY My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St....
ABBEY CLANCY I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
ABBEY CLANCY When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy...
ABBEY CLANCY I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lip...
ABBEY CLANCY I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the f...
ABBEY CLANCY I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&...
ABBEY CLANCY I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, b...
ABBEY CLANCY Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
ABBEY CLANCY For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect...
ABBEY CLANCY Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
ABBEY CLANCY Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClu...
ABBEY CLANCY I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
ABBEY CLANCY No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out,...
ABBEY CLANCY I never go wild with nails.
ABBEY CLANCY The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think...
ABBEY CLANCY I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to th...
ABBEY CLANCY There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same w...
ABBEY LINCOLN There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter...
ABBEY LINCOLN It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the tr...
ABBEY LINCOLN I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
ABBEY LINCOLN But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody want...
ABBEY LINCOLN I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge fa...
ABBEY CLANCY Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written do...
LYNN ABBEY When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
LYNN ABBEY My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used...
ABBEY CLANCY I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I...
ABBEY CLANCY My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being ...
ABBEY CLANCY It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke E...
ABBEY LINCOLN That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
LYNN ABBEY I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.
JOSHUA ABBEY All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.
JOSHUA ABBEY It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that s...
JOSHUA ABBEY I culled the cream of the crop.
JOSHUA ABBEY Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.
DOUG ABBEY They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment...
DOUG ABBEY Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners.
DOUG ABBEY Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airline...
DOUG ABBEY If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
DEAR ABBEY Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expecta...
DEAR ABBEY Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.
DEAR ABBEY If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
DEAR ABBEY Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores — it's c...
DEAR ABBEY I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
ABBEY LINCOLN No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few...
LYNN ABBEY