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“L'anarchia non è una favola romantica, ma una testarda constatazione, basata su cinquemila anni di esperienza, che non possiamo affidare la gestione delle nostre vite a re, preti, politici, generali, e commissari provinciali.”

Edward Abbey

“La crescita fine a se stessa è l'ideologia delle cellule cancerose.”

Edward Abbey

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“Un patriota deve sempre essere pronto a difendere il suo paese dal suo governo.”

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Deserto solitario

“Il rancher (con un paio di onorevoli eccezioni) è un uomo che circonda i pascoli di filo spinato; scava pozzi e demolisce i laghetti destinati al bestiame; costringe alla fuga alci, antilopi e bighorn; avvelena i coyote e i cani della prateria; spara a vista ad aquile, orsi e puma; trasforma le praterie vergini in distese di coyote e i cani della prateria; spara a vista ad aquile, orsi e puma; trasforma le praterie vergini in distese di amaranto, serpentaria, monolopia, merda di mucca, formicai, fango, polvere e mosche. E poi, ciondolando davanti alle telecamere, racconta sorridendo del suo grande amore per il West.”

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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

“L'abolizione del diritto di abortire per una donna, quando e se lo vuole, equivale a una maternità obbligatoria, una forma di stupro da parte dello Stato.”

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“Sentimento senza azione è la rovina dell'anima.”

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“Dottrine fantastiche (come il cristianesimo, l'islamismo o il marxismo) richiedono la fede unanime. Ma se qualcuno lancia dei dubbi sul credo di milioni, ecco che compaiono paura e odio, camere a gas e di tortura, la forca, i lavori forzati e i reparti di psichiatria.”

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

“La violenza è americana quanto la torta di mele.”

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Origine: Da I sabotatori.

“Equilibrio, questo è il segreto. Moderato estremismo.”

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Origine: Da Bedrock and Paradox.

“Dal punto di vista di una tenia l'uomo fu creato da Dio per soddisfare l'appetito delle tenie.”

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Edward Abbey: Frasi in inglese

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

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Origine: 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.”

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

“Why this cult of wilderness?… because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.”

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Origine: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”

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“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.”

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“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”

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

“We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.”

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“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”

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

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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.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43

“I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”

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Origine: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

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

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

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Origine: Desert Solitaire

“I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.”

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

“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

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

“If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

Origine: Desert Solitaire

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

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

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”

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“The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”

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Origine: Desert Solitaire

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

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Origine: 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.”

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Origine: 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.”

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

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

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

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

“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”

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Origine: Desert Solitaire

“The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.”

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

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"Water", p. 113; this is often quoted as simply: Without courage, all other virtues are useless. 
Origine: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Contesto: 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.

“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

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“Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.”

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Origine: 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.”

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

“[Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.”