# Quote — Edward Abbey, Down the River

> Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

- Author: [Edward Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey.md)
- Book: [Down the River](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/down-the-river.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/down-the-river/love-can-defeat

## More from this book

> Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/down-the-river/our-culture-runs.md)

> [Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/down-the-river/concerning-river-runners.md)

> I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/down-the-river/i-would-give.md)