28 Quotes by Robert Ardrey

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

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    Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

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    Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

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    Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

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

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    Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits – of beauty and of adventure’s embrace – are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?

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    Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

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    What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

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    The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

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