Frases célebres de Edward Abbey
Frases de fe de Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey Frases y Citas
Edward Abbey: Frases en inglés
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Fuente: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“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)
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.”
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Fuente: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Fuente: Desert Solitaire
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“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
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fuente: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
"Water", p. 104
Fuente: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Fuente: Desert Solitaire
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
"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