Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. Daniel Quinn More Quotes by Daniel Quinn More Quotes From Daniel Quinn We are all captives of a story. Daniel Quinn captives stories The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. Daniel Quinn obvious sometimes way 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 at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer. Daniel Quinn cycle-of-life mother father Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them. Daniel Quinn pills sleep lying If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it. Daniel Quinn damn made world Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth. Daniel Quinn care community earth No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it. Daniel Quinn know-how stories looks The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger. Daniel Quinn facts people world Courage is the virtue of the free. Daniel Quinn virtue courage All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together. Daniel Quinn squirrels lying hands We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging. Daniel Quinn path remember world Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations. Daniel Quinn rocks eagles fall I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes. Daniel Quinn support technology long Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is. Daniel Quinn color blue school What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail. Daniel Quinn normal failing Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much. Daniel Quinn choices pyramids ideas [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village. Daniel Quinn war civilization past In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. Daniel Quinn library secret facts The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous. Daniel Quinn ambiguous cease profession If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael Daniel Quinn ishmael confused ifs
