Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Zdroj: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”
Zdroj: 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)
Zdroj: 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 kniha Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Edward Abbey kniha Desert Solitaire
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Edward Abbey kniha Desert Solitaire
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire
“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Zdroj: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
Edward Abbey kniha Desert Solitaire
"Water", p. 104
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Edward Abbey kniha Desert Solitaire
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
Edward Abbey kniha 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 -->
Zdroj: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Kontext: 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.”
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdroj: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100