"Man is a distance runner as a consequence……" — 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."
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12 Quotes by Paul Shepard
Paul Shepard has 12 quotes on this site.
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions,…
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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse…
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Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill…
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The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
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When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or…
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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology -…
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To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions…
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The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
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Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
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There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize…
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More Antelopes Quotes
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.
— George Carlin
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Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and…
— Newt Gingrich
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Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why…
— Suzy Kassem
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there…
— Jim Harrison
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A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or…
— Michael Behe
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Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.
— PLO Lumumba
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If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.
— Eminem
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All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or…
— Ray Bradbury
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Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just…
— Russell Means
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If…
— Havelock Ellis
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The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to…
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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