Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear. — 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… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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,… — 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… — 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… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
