7 Edward Abbey Quotes on Freedom

Edward Abbey quotes on freedom

11. 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!)

12. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

36. The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

37. No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

39. 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.

43. Freedom begins between the ears.

51. If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.