Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in the shelter of too many northern alliances. I have made alliance with the gentle cow, the health department,… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
