Edward Abbey Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Light, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Space, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Flower, Flora And Fauna

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Flower, Enough

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Flower, Sleep

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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