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Эдвард Эбби

Дата рождения:29. Январь 1927
Дата смерти:14. Март 1989

Эдвард Эбби — американский писатель, философ, идеолог и практик радикальной природоохраны.

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Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.“

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.“

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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 Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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 Abbey374

American author and essayist

„Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.“ The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.“

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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 Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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.“ Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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.“ Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.“ The Best of Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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 Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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 Abbey374

American author and essayist

„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.“ Desert Solitaire

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