All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a l…

- Paul Shepard

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

- 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

Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, s…

- 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

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

- 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

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

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

- Paul Shepard