-A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
-Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
-Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit
-The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already
-Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
A drink a day keeps the shrink away
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey