The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and… — 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.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“a tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?" "Not your life, Greg, your past." "Is there a distincition?" "Of… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it’s never examined or even noticed by… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“THIS LAW THAT YOU HAVE so admirably described defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the community lives in isolation from the rest, not even the queens of the social insects. Nothing lives only in… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how… — 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
