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> [The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.](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/)

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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/)

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> [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/)

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