Decamerone, Vorwort
Original ital.: "E per ciò che la gratitudine, secondo che io credo, trall'altre virtù è sommamente da commendare e il contrario da biasimare, per non parere ingrato ho meco stesso proposto di volere, in quel poco che per me si può, in cambio di ciò che io ricevetti, ora che libero dir mi posso."
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Und es entsprang ein Fluß in Eden. Goldmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-442-12784-x. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 150
"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, […]"
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995)
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 514. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
"We know astonishingly little about every aspect of the environment, from its past history, to its present state, to how to conserve and protect it. In every debate, all sides overstate the extent of existing knowledge and its degree of certainty." - State of Fear
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Bildung. Alles was man wissen muß. Eichborn GmbH & Co. Verlag KG, Frankfurt am Main, Oktober 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0818-7, Seite 202.
Essais Zweites Buch. 11. Über die Grausamkeit. Erste moderne Gesamtübersetzung von Hans Stilett Die Andere Bibliothek, Berlin 2016, 9. Auflage, S. 216