201 Quotes by Daniel Quinn

From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.

We are all captives of a story.