Edward Abbey Frases famosas
“Um homem cheio de si é sempre vazio.”
An empty man is full of himself
"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal" (Vox Clamantis in Deserto); Illustrated by Andrew Rush (1990), St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312064888.
“O céu é o lar. Utopia é aqui. Nirvana é agora.”
Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Abbey's Road (1979)
“Sem coragem, todas as outras virtudes são inúteis.”
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994)
Edward Abbey: Frases em inglês
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Fonte: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: 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 livro Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Fonte: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Edward Abbey livro Desert Solitaire
Fonte: Desert Solitaire
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Edward Abbey livro Desert Solitaire
Fonte: Desert Solitaire
“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Fonte: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
Edward Abbey livro Desert Solitaire
"Water", p. 104
Fonte: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Edward Abbey livro Desert Solitaire
Fonte: Desert Solitaire
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
Edward Abbey livro 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 -->
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100