Edward Abbey Pillows

Description: “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” ― Edward Abbey

Description: Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Description: God bless him.

Description: Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Description: Orca with Edward Abbey quote: Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Description: "Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit." - Edward Abbey. This beautiful quote from the famous environmentalist is a great reminder to prioritize our time in the great outdoors and preserve the wild for future generations. Featuring a relaxing mountain lake scene, this simple nature design will be daily inspiration to get out and explore. Dark grey color scheme with subtle topographic map textures. We hope it serves as frequent encouragement to appreciate nature and stay wild.

Description: These oft-repeated words by modern day conservationists are attributed to a character from one of Edward Abbey’s classic novels. He loved no place more than the desert and red rock country of the American southwest. A ram - big horn sheep - standing firm on solid rock truly exemplifies this stance.

Description: Just like ol' Cactus Ed wore.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Freedom begins between the ears.

Description: This design is self-explanatory. To find out more about the American icon who said it, see my other quotes by him.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

Description: We should listen.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: An empty man is full of himself.

Description: Abbey Road Van Halen

Description: I felt I needed to make a second version of this Edward Abbey quote. I’m feeling a bit impatient. The resistance is not resisting “fast enough.” Someone needs to start pondering this question more seriously.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wildness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself — not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.