Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live… — 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… — 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.… — 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
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
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
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — 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
People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — 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
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