Daniel Quinn Quotes About Culture

• But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

  Daniel Quinn

  Song, Humanity, Luck

• Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Mother, Learning

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

• Y cada vez que los Tomadores erradican una cultura Leaver, una sabiduría puesta a prueba en última instancia desde el nacimiento de la humanidad desaparece del mundo más allá del recuerdo.

  Daniel Quinn

  Culture, World, Birth

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.206, Bantam

• [I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.

  Daniel Quinn

  Zoos, Expression, Hands

• Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.

  Daniel Quinn

  Thinking, Air, Perfect

• Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Men, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.83, Bantam

• The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ocean, Men, Space

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.74, Bantam

• De hecho, en el conjunto de su cultura no existe un impulso significativo hacia el control de la población mundial. Lo que hay que ver es que nunca habrá tal impulso mientras sigas representando una historia que dice que los dioses hicieron el mundo para el hombre. Mientras sigas representando esa historia, la Madre Cultura exigirá una mayor producción de alimentos hoy y prometerá el control de la población mañana.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Men, Long

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.137, Bantam

• The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

  Daniel Quinn

  Successful, Events, Here And There

• Si la Cultura Madre tuviera que hacer un recuento de la historia de la humanidad utilizando estos términos, sería algo así: Los Leavers fueron el primer capítulo de la historia de la humanidad, un capítulo largo y sin incidentes. Su capítulo de la historia humana terminó hace unos diez mil años con el nacimiento de la agricultura en Oriente Próximo. Este acontecimiento marcó el comienzo del capítulo dos, el capítulo de los Tomadores. Es cierto que aún quedan Leavers en el mundo, pero son anacrónicos, fósiles, gente que vive en el pasado, gente que no se da cuenta de que su capítulo de la historia de la humanidad ha terminado. '

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

• During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, People, Culture

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.”, p.169, Steerforth

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