Edward Abbey Quote

It has been said, and truly, that everything in the desert either stings, stabs, stinks, or sticks. You will find the flora here as venomous, hooked, barbed, thorny, prickly, needled, saw-toothed, hairy, stickered, mean, bitter, sharp, wiry, and fierce as the animals.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West - Chapter 2 (p. 14), E.P. Dutton. 1977