# Quote — Edward Abbey, The Journey Home

> All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

- Author: [Edward Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey.md)
- Book: [The Journey Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home.md)
- Page: 57
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey#The_Journey_Home_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home/all-we-have

## More from this book

> One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.

p. 201 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home/one-wishes-to.md)

> The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home/the-idea-of-wilderness.md)

> As for the "solitary confinement of the mind," my theory is that solipsism, like other absurdities of the professional philosopher, is a product of too much time wasted in library stacks between the covers of a book, in smoke-filled coffeehouses (bad for brains) and conversation-clogged seminars. To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock at his head: if he ducks he's a liar. His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic.

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home/as-for-the.md)