To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.” — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“But it was probably long before anyone thought of pottery that the river was first perceived as a metaphor of destiny, the "clan river"… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)” — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
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