Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a l… - Paul Shepard
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a l…
- 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
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.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. - Paul Shepard
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. - Paul Shepard
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, s… - Paul Shepard
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, s…
The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives. - Paul Shepard
The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
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
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.
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
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. - Paul Shepard
The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion