# Quote — Edward Abbey, The Journey Home

> The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

- 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: 205
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home/the-longest-journey

## 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)