"The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible." — Paul Shepard
"The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible."
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Paul Shepard
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12 Quotes by Paul Shepard
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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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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild…
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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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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 Desert Quotes
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
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My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a…
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within…
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets…
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either…
— Unknown Author
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help…
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
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