Edward Abbey

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

- Edward Abbey