Daniel Quinn Quote

We don’t need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what’s actually there.

Daniel Quinn

We don’t need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what’s actually there.

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About Daniel Quinn

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".