Edward Abbey Quotes

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

You slow down when you get older.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

T Rex could not run.

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

I wish that we all would have slowed down and savored the moment, loved what was happening and then appreciate it. It was going by so fast. Whatever the record told us to do, we'd do. We were just constantly touring, and then MTV happened and that kicked things up a notch for everybody.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.