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Daniel Quinn Biography

Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy. Instead, Quinn identified his philosophy as new tribalism.

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TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Apply, Desire, Earnest, Person, Teacher, World

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Disgust, Disgusting, Pity, Twinged

Courage is the virtue of the free.

Courage, Free, Virtue

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

Fire, Health, Ideas, Sunset, Tepee, Watch

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

Care, Community, Earth, Lives

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

Deer, Rabbits, Settle, Want

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Crucial, Prison, Race, Survival

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

Culture, Extinction, People, Race, Species, Way

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.

Able, Blindly, Consists, Should, Trust, Wisdom

If we continue. . . to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

Children, Come, Consume, Future, Kind, People

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

Atom, Born, Men, Ocean, Oceans, Space

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.

Accomplish, Journey, Route, Worry

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.

Community, Defines, Food, Full, Law, War

No one species shall make the life of the world its own. ' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

Expression, Law, Make, Species, World

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done. . almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world. . or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Conquer, Destiny, Devastation, Mastery, Men, People

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

Live, Needs, Ought, Prophet, Prophets, Tell

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

Alone, Community, Man, Men, News

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just. . . us.

Changing, Humanity, Lived, Luck, Song, Thousands

[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.

Civilization, Past, Right, Village, War, Way

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.

Beneath, Fall, Feet, Foot, Rocks, Soil

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