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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

Edward Abbey

Sex, Children, Sorry

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

Edward Abbey

Girl, Children, Hands

Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.156, Holt Paperbacks

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Edward Abbey

Children, Ordinary, Half

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, 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

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Edward Abbey

Children, Real, Men

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

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

Edward Abbey

Children, Passion, Foundation

The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.

Edward Abbey

Children, Spring, College

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks