A collection of quotes, news and related information from the life and work of American playwright, screenwriter and science writer Robert Ardrey (1908-1980)
4/ The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”
― Robert Ardrey, African Genesis
"We are born of risen apes not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killer besides...The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems not our corpses."
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. ... The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
-Robert Ardrey, Writer/Screenwriter/Playwright
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dir Stanley Kubrick
Inspiration for the 'Star Child' came from Robert Ardrey’s book African Genesis. Here is Kubrick's annotated copy of the book..
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“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels...The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”
- Robert Ardrey
"The Three Musketeers" is a 1948 film.
Directed by George Sidney, written by Robert Ardrey, and starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner.
It is a Technicolor adventure film adaptation of the classic novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas.
#BlackHistoryMonth Ruby Dee married Ossie Davis, while costarring in Robert Ardrey's 1946 #Broadway play Jeb. Dee and Davis wrote an #autobiography in which they discussed their political activism & their decision 2 have an open marriage (later changing their views). #blacklove
Shadow of Heroes, written by Robert Ardrey in 1958, is playing in New York. It tells the story of #Hungarian communist activists who survived torture by the #Gestapo only to face it again from the #communist government — a reminder of the dark 30s and 40s. https://t.co/8QN3RBsRQb
“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at?...The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.” @ArdreyEstate
"We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk, but how magnificently he has risen."
Robert Ardrey in African Genesis, 1961.
Da podelim još malo mudrosti sa vama pa da nastavim da radim: “The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen.” - Robert Ardrey, African Genesis