Quote #12

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

More from Edward Abbey

  1. I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the…
  2. Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
  3. All living things on earth are kindred.
  4. A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
  5. I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
  6. 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…
  7. I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids o…
  8. Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

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