Edward Abbey Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

• Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

  Edward Abbey

  Atheist, Doubt, Islam

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

• Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Real, Fall

• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Sauce

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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