Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. #Abbey #EdAbbey

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. #Abbey #EdAbbey

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. #Abbey #EdAbbey

A quiet place for #SilentSunday circa 1979. A magical place to live & work for awhile. "The most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places" - #EdAbbey
#Utah #Mountains #Nature

In honor of Ed Abbey's birthday. I'm pretty sure Ed knew this view. #edabbey #utah #landscapephotography #BlackAndWhitePhotograghy #canyonlandsnp