Paul Shepard Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. — Paul Shepard

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease. — 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

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body. — Paul Shepard

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