Edward Abbey

Naissance 1927 · Décès 1989

Citations

“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.”
Desert Solitaire, p. 113En anglais
“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”
Desert Solitaire, p. 147En anglais
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Vox Clamantis in DesertoEn anglais
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Vox Clamantis in DesertoEn anglais