Edward Abbey Quotes on Freedom
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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!)
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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Freedom begins between the ears.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.