Top 12 Quotes by 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.

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

Animal, Men, Endurance

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

Art, Philosophy, Exercise

Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

Paul Shepard

Spiritual, Reality, Leader

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

Paul Shepard

Secret, Individual, Persons

Paul Shepard (2011). “Nature and Madness”, University of Georgia Press

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

Paul Shepard

Dream, World, Realizing

Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.6, Island Press

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

Paul Shepard

World, Want

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

Technology, Broken, Historical