Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 706 | The teeth of the lion have had much to do with the fleetness of the antelopes. |
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Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 703 | For View more quotes about example">example, it would not occur to a Gorean to speak of the "role" of a female sparrow feeding her young or the "role" of a lion in providing meat for its cubs. |
| 22 | 704 | Goreans do not see the world in terms of metaphors taken from the artificialities of the theater. |
| 22 | 705 | It is certain, of course, that certain genetic endowments have been selected for by environmental considerations, and, in this sense, the environment is a significant factor. |
| 22 | 706 | The teeth of the lion have had much to do with the fleetness of the antelopes. |
| 22 | 707 | In Gorean thinking man and woman are natural animals, with genetic endowments shaped by thousands of generations of natural and sexual selection. |
| 22 | 708 | Their actions and behavior, thus, though not independent of certain long-range environmental and sexual relationships, cannot be understood in terms of mere responses to the immediately present environment. |
| 22 | 709 | The immediate environment determines what behavior will be successful, not what behavior is performed. |
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For example, it would not occur to a Gorean to speak of the "role" of a female sparrow feeding her young or the "role" of a lion in providing meat for its cubs.
Goreans do not see the world in terms of metaphors taken from the artificialities of the theater.
It is certain, of course, that certain genetic endowments have been selected for by environmental considerations, and, in this sense, the environment is a significant factor.
The teeth of the lion have had much to do with the fleetness of the antelopes.
In Gorean thinking man and woman are natural animals, with genetic endowments shaped by thousands of generations of natural and sexual selection.
Their actions and behavior, thus, though not independent of certain long-range environmental and sexual relationships, cannot be understood in terms of mere responses to the immediately present environment.
The immediate environment determines what behavior will be successful, not what behavior is performed.
- (Hunters of Gor)