Quotes by Daniel Quinn

“If the will is there, the method will be found.”

“Obviously Mother Culture must be finished off if you’re going to survive, and that’s something the people of your culture can do. She has no existence outside your minds. Once you stop listening to...”

“The world was not made for any one species.”

“Mankind was not needed to bring order to the world.”

“Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they’re reenacting the scene beside the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They’re saying to themselves, ‘Of ...”

“Adam wasn’t the progenitor of our race, he was the progenitor of our culture.”

“In order to make their story come true, the Takers have to put an end to creation itself—and they’re doing a damned good job of it.”

“The premise of the Taker story is the world belongs to man.... The premise of the Leaver story is man belongs to the world.”

“Of course it’s not enough. But if you begin anywhere else, there’s no hope at all.”

“Daunting isn’t nearly strong enough. To call it daunting is like calling the Atlantic damp.”

“One thing I know people will say to me is ‘Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?’That of course is an inane idea, Ishmael said. The Leaver life-style isn’t about hunting and gath...”