Edward Abbey Quotes

We are each other's destiny.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

There's so much more to people than their differences.