“Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the point of disbelief. And if man in his current predicament seeks a fair mystique to see him through, then… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in the shelter of too many northern alliances. I have made alliance with the gentle cow, the health department, the local policeman. In the shelter of such alliances I have got out of bed in the morning with moderate assurance that I shall still be alive at bedtime. But south of the moon my allies… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
