Daniel Quinn Quotes

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

The world was not made for any one species.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.