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Edward Abbey, né le 29 janvier 1927 à Indiana dans l'État de Pennsylvanie et mort le 14 mars 1989 à Tucson dans l'Arizona, est un écrivain et essayiste américain, doublé d'un militant écologiste radical. Ses œuvres les plus connues sont le roman Le Gang de la clef à molette, qui inspira la création de l'organisation environnementale Earth First!, et son essai Désert solitaire. L'écrivain américain Larry McMurtry le considère comme « le Thoreau de l'Ouest américain ». Wikipedia  

✵ 29. janvier 1927 – 14. mars 1989
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Edward Abbey Citations

Edward Abbey: Citations en anglais

“Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”

Edward Abbey

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

Edward Abbey

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”

Edward Abbey

Source: 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 livre Desert Solitaire

"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”

Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”

Edward Abbey

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”

Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"Water", p. 104
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”

Edward Abbey livre 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 -->
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Contexte: 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.”

Edward Abbey

Source: 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.”

Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

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