Frasi di Edward Abbey

Deserto solitario

Deserto solitario

Origine: Da The Cowboy and His Cow, discorso tenuto a Missoula nell'aprile 1985; citato in Peter Singer e Jim Mason, Come mangiamo: le conseguenze etiche delle nostre scelte alimentari, traduzione di Francesca Tondi, il Saggiatore, Milano, 2011, [//books.google.it/books?id=2wafUFd2KQQC&pg=PA272 p. 272]. ISBN 978-88-565-0241-1

Origine: Da A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal, St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Origine: Da I sabotatori.

Origine: Da Bedrock and Paradox.

Deserto solitario

"Down the River", p. 148
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“Come On In”, p. 88
The Journey Home (1977)

“Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge”, p. 57
The Journey Home (1977)
Origine: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

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

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

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

Abbey's Road (1979)
Contesto: The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer." Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed — but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

"Walking", p. 205
The Journey Home (1977)
Contesto: 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 and anyone can transport himself anywhere, instantly. Big deal, Buckminster. To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. <!-- π

Quoted in Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity (1994) by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, p. 338
Contesto: 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.