Paul Shepard Quotes & Sayings

#1. Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

#2. When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

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

#4. There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

#5. Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

#6. The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

#7. The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

#8. 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.

#9. 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 Quotes