"The Sage of Palm Springs"
Palm Springs Life Magazine |
"William Edelen is an original thinker in the oldest of thinking worlds, that is, thinking about God. He's in love with the truth. Edelen dares to do his own thinking. He has wide experience to enrich that thinking"
Buckminster Fuller |
"Your wonderful piece of writing which was waiting for me when I returned is the best reward I have received to date from this year's activities."
Joseph Campbell |
"Your overall record of citizenship is indeed distinguished and for which I salute you. May I express admiration for the character of your career."
Walter Annenberg |
"William Edelen is the polymath* of Sonoma County"
Herb Caen
Pulitzer Prize winner and late, distinguished columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
"Polymath; a unique individual of encyclopaedic learning" |
"Writing your regular columns and lecturing require a great vitality which I know is supported by a faith that you are helping to move the world in the right direction during these chaotic times. Your columns are just superb. You are headed in the right direction, uphill against the general opinions and prejudices of our tragic time. Keep at it."
Frank Waters
(nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature) |
"Your lectures are indeed superlative...
You must keep writing...
keep speaking...you are much needed..."
William O. Douglas U. S. Supreme Court Justice |
"With your keen intellectual awareness and your background in the biological sciences, you are obviously an unusual asset. I do want to tell you that I have come to have an increasing sense of gratitude to men such as you who uphold the spiritual values, without which the life of man is nothing. I salute you."
Loren Eiseley |
Bill, I could not have been more pleased than when I was listening to your lecture. This is the sort of scholarship that I am always interested in."
Charles Schulz, "Peanuts" creator |