Quote #14
A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
More from Edward Abbey
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
- 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…
- Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
- Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
- I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the…
- We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
- All living things on earth are kindred.
- To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.