6 Edward Abbey Quotes on Conservation

Edward Abbey quotes on conservation

1. My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

17. 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.

24. 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 which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had the eyes to see.

26. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

30. 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 Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

50. I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.