The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs… — 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
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed.… — 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
And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The… — 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
Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man. — 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
No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that… — 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
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the… — 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
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — 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
“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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