Edward Abbey

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks read more

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and read more

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little read more

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination