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 first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“We have a system that works fabulously well for products. But the one we have for people stinks. This is the lesson… — 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
A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“This story takes place a half a billion years ago-an inconceivably long time ago, when this planet would be all but recognizable… — 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
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
There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little. — 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
There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn’t right for a… — 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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