Edward Abbey Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Hunting, Moral

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

• Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
  understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Lovable

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Favors, Liberation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Dog, Silly

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

• I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Animal, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

• In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Sound, Hungry

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

• The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Vanity

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 225), 1977.

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