Quote #27

I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

More from Edward Abbey

  1. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
  2. Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. (p. 81)
  3. When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila mon…
  4. Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddl…
  5. The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth w…
  6. I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a M…
  7. The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
  8. Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

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