Robert Ardrey Quotes:
Ocupation: Playwright
Life: October 16, 1908 - January 14, 1980
Birthday: October 16
Death: January 14
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise.
source: "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.
topic: Stars, Men, Years, Improbability, Ruthlessness, He Has Risen, Unprecedented
