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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

Edward Abbey
Journey, Keys, Hiking

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Edward Abbey
Journey, Snakes, Hiking
Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Edward Abbey
Suicidal, Journey, Should Have
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Edward Abbey
Journey, Blue, Space
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Edward Abbey
Real, Journey, Hiking

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Edward Abbey
Pain, Heart, Journey
Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

Edward Abbey
Home, Journey, Keys
"The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Walking", p. 205), 1977.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Edward Abbey
Army, Journey, Two

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