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Daniel Quinn

“Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?”

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
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