Narby Quotes

#1. According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

Jeremy Narby

#2. Fishes love water,but not hot water.
Men love women,who love Delilah(Samson&Delilah)?

Peter Irabor

#3. All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

Sylvia Earle

#4. What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Jeremy Narby

#5. A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

Sean Paul

#7. Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Chuck Close

#8. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Jeremy Narby

#9. Here are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body
your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

Jeremy Narby

#10. I tried to take some pride where I could. If I was going to be a dropout loser, then I was going to be the best dropout loser.

Lish McBride

#11. Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#12. For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

Lewis Carroll

#13. I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

Richard LaGravenese

#14. Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Jeremy Narby

#15. I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

Stephen Lang

#16. In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

Jeremy Narby

#17. I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

Paul Shaffer

#18. If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

Jeremy Narby

#19. The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... in hallucinations and dreams.

Jeremy Narby

#20. This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.

Jeremy Narby