Frases de Edward Abbey
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Edward Paul Abbey fue un escritor y ambientalista estadounidense.

Trabajó como guardabosques y vigía forestal para el National Park Service. Escribió varios libros sobre la intrusión de la cultura del consumo en el entorno natural estadounidense. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. enero 1927 – 14. marzo 1989
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“Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”

Fuente: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43

“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”

Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Fuente: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”

Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

Fuente: Desert Solitaire

“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”

Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”

Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Water", p. 104
Fuente: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”

Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

Fuente: Desert Solitaire

“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”

Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Water", p. 113; this is often quoted as simply: Without courage, all other virtues are useless. <!-- Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) p. 207 -->
Fuente: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Contexto: Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

“Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.”

Fuente: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

“Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.”

Fuente: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100