One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than
an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
-- Edward Abbey
an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
-- Edward Abbey
Related:
- A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon
of gold... - All gold is fool's gold.
--
Edward... - One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than
the principles of common sense,
as validated each day by work, play, and living experience... - One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
Edward... - Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the
latest pronouncements of science.
Edward... - Life is worth much more than gold.
- Bob... - I come more and more to the conclusion
that wilderness,
in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left... - Nothing is worth more than this
day. --...
From the same category:
- Don: I didn't know you had a cousin Penelope, Bill!
Was she pretty? W. C.: Well, her face was so wrinkled... - Clinton, "I didn't say that - er, well - yes,
but I didn't mean..... - A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush
it gave himself a hard slap.
Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge... - Mystery in the Barnyard:
Hu Flung... - Programmers do it
logically...
