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 That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone. to be reassured or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these - I was afraid I was dreaming. Daniel Quinn saving dream world Pity is always twinged with disgust. Daniel Quinn disgusting pity When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.) Daniel Quinn editors names writing Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else! Daniel Quinn prison education school There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little. Daniel Quinn too-much littles The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. Daniel Quinn accomplish journey worry I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover. Daniel Quinn archery spiritual yellow The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally. Daniel Quinn here-and-there events successful Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow. Daniel Quinn mother men long Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns. Daniel Quinn air perfect thinking There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other. Daniel Quinn trust able should You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it. Daniel Quinn handle problem wisdom We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children. Daniel Quinn greed responsibility children The world was not made for any one species. Daniel Quinn species made world This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war. Daniel Quinn community law war In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live. Daniel Quinn forever men two We had been hearing for months about raping in our province, not just in Afghanistan. Daniel Quinn politics He confessed to the crime and laughed about it, and said it wasn’t a big deal. Even when we patiently explained how serious the charge was, he kept laughing. Daniel Quinn politics As a man, as a father of a young boy myself at the time, I felt obliged to step in to prevent further repeat occurrences. Daniel Quinn politics
