Adaptability Quote by Robert Ardrey

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

— Robert Ardrey

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

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

— Robert Ardrey

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