Christopher Mcdougall Inspirational Quotes (27)

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.