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> [The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-miracle-of-man-is-not-how-far-he-has-sunk-but-how-magnificently/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

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> [The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-miracle-of-man-is-not-how-far-he-has-sunk-but-how-magnificently-2/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

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## More by Robert Ardrey

> [The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-city-is-a-cultural-invention-enforcing-on-the-citizen-knowledge/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/do-you-care-about-freedom-dreams-may-have-inspired-it-and-wishes/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/if-you-watch-lizards-and-lions-copulating-then-you-will-see-that-in/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-dog-barking-at-you-from-behind-his-master-s-fence-acts-for-a/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/not-in-innocence-and-not-in-asia-was-mankind-born-the-home-of-our/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [“I have lived my life in the shelter of too many northern alliances. I have made alliance with the gentle cow, the health department,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/i-have-lived-my-life-in-the-shelter-of-too-many-northern-alliances-i/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-miracle-of-man-is-not-how-far-he-has-sunk-but-how-magnificently/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-hunter-died-when-he-achieved-supremacy-perhaps-the-death-of-the/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/the-miracle-of-man-is-not-how-far-he-has-sunk-but-how-magnificently-2/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/human-war-has-been-the-most-successful-of-our-cultural-traditions/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/natural-selection-deals-ruthlessly-with-any-population-bird-or-beaver/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/there-is-nothing-so-moving-not-even-acts-of-love-or-hate-as-the/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/man-is-a-fraction-of-the-animal-world-our-history-is-an-afterthought/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/far-from-the-truth-lay-the-antique-assumption-that-man-had-fathered/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

> [A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/a-bird-does-not-fly-because-it-has-wings-it-has-wings-because-it-flies/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

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