Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves
out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a
half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for
pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more
important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there
and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and
explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers,
breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and
contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.
Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to
the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you
this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women
with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk
calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the
cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country
against his government.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Society is
like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum
floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding,
lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise
into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through
pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers
into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through
miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas,
domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep
vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs,
where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as
lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more
beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --
beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the
human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization
which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is
cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization
itself.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see
more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a
hundred miles.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with
light.”
― Edward Abbey, The Best of Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey, The Best of Edward Abbey
“There are some good things to be said about walking.
Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known
form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a
hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus
more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian
technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be
everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick
in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the
front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness
without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and
right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in
it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need
the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the
cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since
few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule
others.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A
man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of
a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And
as much as anyone deserves.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what
is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the
earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the
only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded
realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust
the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and
county commissioners.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Freedom begins between the ears.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“The best thing about graduating from the university
was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome,
dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and
above the clouds.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the
earth.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Anarchism is democracy taken
seriously.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies'
territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will
harvest a few trespassers.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole
civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The
earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to
break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream,
thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
“Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water
in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock,
water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and
animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different
from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you
try to establish a city where no city should be.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
“Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if
she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor
conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die
fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
… Gott ist ein Wort, welches Menschen benutzen, wenn
sie zu Müde zum Denken sind.
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
*
… Was ist der Unterschied zwischen dem 'Lone Ranger'
und Gott? - Den 'Lone Ranger' gibt es tatsächlich.
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
*
… Aus der Sicht eines Bandwurms wurde der Mensch von
Gott erschaffen, um den Hunger der Bandwürmer zu stillen.
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
Edward Abbey, amerikan. Schriftsteller u. Humorist, 1927-1989
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