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Paul Shepard Quotes

Enjoy the top 11 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Paul Shepard.

“Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies ... despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.”
— Paul Shepard —

“Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.”

— Paul Shepard

“All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.”

— Paul Shepard

“There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.”

— Paul Shepard

“The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.”

— Paul Shepard

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

— Paul Shepard

“Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.”

— Paul Shepard