From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“For example, children in school are never encouraged to want the material rewards of success. Success is something to be sought for… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,… — daniel quinn Copy Share Image
The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Many peoples practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was *right*, that everyone in the entire… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
