Home › Authors › Paul Shepard
Paul Shepard Quotes
d. 1996 United States
Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (12 June 1925 – 27 July 1996) was an American environmentalist and author best known for introducing the "Pleistocene paradigm" to deep ecology. His works have attempted to establish a normative framework in terms of evolutionary theory and developmental psychology.
United States Environmentalists Random Paul Shepard quote
2 quotes
Longer than memory we have known that each animal has its power and place, each a skill, virtue, wisdom, innocence — a special access to the structure and flow of the world. Each surpasses ourselves in some way. Together, sacred, they help hold the cosmos together, making it a joy and beauty to behold, but above all a challenge to understand as story, drama, and sacred play.
The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (1996)
Animals are among the first inhabitants of the mind's eye. They are basic to the development of speech and thought. Because of their part in the growth of consciousness, they are inseparable from the series of events in each human life, indispensable to our becoming human in the fullest sense.
Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence (1978)
Topics Paul Shepard is quoted on
Works