Edward Abbey Nature Quotes
November 30, 2018 by snewman
Rock Point, Lake Champlain. Postcard[Photograph]. (2010, June 4). PSAW ephemera collections, SeeSaw Blog In L. Cowan (Comp.).
After learning about naturalist, Edward Abbey during class, I became interested in his writing style and ideas so I read some of his quotes and writing. I found these quotes that stood out to me, and also reminded me of my place here in Burlington.
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
― Edward Abbey
“Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”
― Edward Abbey