Desert Quote by Paul Shepard

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

— Paul Shepard

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life…

— Paul Shepard

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

— Paul Shepard

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

— Paul Shepard

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long…

— Paul Shepard

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

— Paul Shepard

Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated…

— Paul Shepard

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

— Paul Shepard

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

— Paul Shepard

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

— Paul Shepard

“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic…

— Paul Shepard

“But it was probably long before anyone thought of pottery that the river was first perceived as a metaphor of destiny, the "clan river"…

— Paul Shepard