A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) Quotes

“Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“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. South”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Most”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. I”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“I despise my own nation the most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patriotism.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness