Quote #11
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!)
More from Edward Abbey
- All living things on earth are kindred.
- Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
- I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
- I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids o…
- A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
- This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the i…
- Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quic…