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“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
Quelle: The Best of Edward Abbey
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Edward Abbey buch Desert Solitaire
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Quelle: Desert Solitaire
“Freedom begins between the ears.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Edward Abbey buch Desert Solitaire
Preface (dated June 1987) for 1988 reprint of Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Kontext: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.
“I am not an atheist but an earthiest.”
Edward Abbey buch Desert Solitaire
"Down the River", p. 163
Desert Solitaire (1968)
“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.”
"Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 223
The Journey Home (1977)
“Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.”
Quelle: Confessions of a Barbarian
“There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.”
"The Ancient Dust", page 153
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”
Edward Abbey buch Desert Solitaire
Quelle: Desert Solitaire
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
Edward Abbey buch The Monkey Wrench Gang
Quelle: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
Edward Abbey buch Desert Solitaire
Quelle: Desert Solitaire
Quelle: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Quelle: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Quelle: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
Edward Abbey buch The Monkey Wrench Gang
page 294
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Variante: He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Quelle: The Monkey Wrench Gang
Quelle: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
