Ryan McConnell

“We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“Beyond atheism, nontheism. I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire