Prehistoric Quotes

• There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

  Karen Russell

  Swim, Extinction, Certain

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Men, Drawing

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Brain, Needs

  "The Ghost in the Machine". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1967.

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• Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

  Fernando Botero

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

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• In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

  Robert Orben

  Humor, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Sea, Roots, Rose

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Culture, Hunters

  Ellen Dissanayake (1992). “Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why”

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• Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

  Pierre Loti

  Fossils, Study, Mystery

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• I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

  Terence McKenna

  Want, Psychedelic, Centerpieces

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Summer, Nature, Past

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.6, e-artnow

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

  Louis Leakey

  Art, Aggravation, Painting

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• It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

  Fred Ward

  Meat, Going Out, Asking

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• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  Macklemore

  Technology, Sampling, Texture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Fire, Our Generation

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• In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

  James Theodore Bent

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".

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• I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.

  Penelope Lively

  Science, Glasses, Cities

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• The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

  Louis Leakey

  Mean, Age, Bed

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• The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

  John Lydon

  Individuality, Monsters, Offers

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.318, Picador

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• I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Rivers, Brazil, Pounds

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Church, Cult

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• Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Christian, Art, Stars

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• Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Animal, Significant Change, Eras

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