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
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
From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special… — 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
Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way,… — 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
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be 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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