1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey citations
Page 4

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
Edward Abbey: 147   citations 0   J'aime

Edward Abbey Citations

“La planète est plus grande que nous ne l'avons jamais imaginée. Le monde est plus froid, plus ancien, plus étrange et plus mystérieux que nous ne l'avons jamais rêvé. Et nous, misérables créatures humaines avec nos innombrables outils et jouets et peurs et espoirs ne sommes qu'une petite feuille sur le grand arbre efflorescent de la vie.”

Edward Abbey

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Edward Abbey: Citations en anglais

“Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

“We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"The Heart of Noon", p. 116
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“Business: Busyness.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong… Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

"How It Was", page 55
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

“One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

On the Colorado River, in “Down the River with Major Powell”, p. 201
The Journey Home (1977)

“When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

“There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“The plow has probably done more harm — in the long run — than the sword.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“An empty man is full of himself.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“All living things on earth are kindred.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"Serpents of Paradise", p. 22
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre The Monkey Wrench Gang

page 312
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us — if only we were worthy of it.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

"The Second Rape of the West," The Journey Home, 1977
The Journey Home (1977)

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre The Monkey Wrench Gang

Seldom Seen Smith, page 313
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

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

“I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre Desert Solitaire

"The First Morning", p. 7
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey livre The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.”

Help us translate this quote
Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

Auteurs similaires

Richard Bach photo
Richard Bach 8
écrivain américain
Kurt Vonnegut photo
Kurt Vonnegut 29
écrivain américain
John Steinbeck photo
John Steinbeck 18
écrivain américain
William Faulkner photo
William Faulkner 18
écrivain américain
Ray Bradbury photo
Ray Bradbury 20
écrivain américain
Jack London photo
Jack London 12
écrivain américain
Vladimir Nabokov photo
Vladimir Nabokov 39
écrivain
Francis Scott Fitzgerald photo
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 18
écrivain américain
Anaïs Nin photo
Anaïs Nin 16
écrivain américaine
Charles Bukowski photo
Charles Bukowski 19
écrivain américain