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“We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world
because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.”
― Daniel Quinn

“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.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“culture. A culture is a people enacting a story.” “A people enacting a story. And a story again is …?” “A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods.” “Okay. So you’re saying that the people of my culture are enacting their own story about man, the world, and the gods.” “That’s right.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit