primitive Quotes

“It was easy to see that, within a few hundred thousands years, Humanity could start over again with these titanic primitives.”

All his days, no matter what the odds, he had never run from a fight. But the club of the man in the red sweater had beaten into him a more fundamental and primitive code.

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew.

“The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness; the wood-cutters slept, their fires burned low; the snapping of a twig would make you start. We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.”