Children Quote by Daniel Quinn

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

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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

“[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

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

“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

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

“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

“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.”

— Daniel Quinn

“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

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

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

“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