Daniel Quinn Quote
One thing I know people will say to me is ‘Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?’ That of course is an inane idea, Ishmael said. The Leaver life-style isn’t about hunting and gathering, it’s about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.
Daniel Quinn
One thing I know people will say to me is ‘Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?’ That of course is an inane idea, Ishmael said. The Leaver life-style isn’t about hunting and gathering, it’s about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.
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Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism". He died of aspiration pneumonia.