Public Lectures, Speeches, and Talks
“Hope: A Dialogue,” from Ishmael: Inner Workings
Three Talks by Daniel Quinn
November 1998, Daniel Quinn & Rob McKinnon. Track 1
“The Ishmael Themes,” from Ishmael: Inner Workings
Three Talks by Daniel Quinn
November 1998, Daniel Quinn. Track 2
“The Ishmael Imperative,” from Ishmael: Inner Workings
Three Talks by Daniel Quinn
November 1998, Daniel Quinn. Track 3
Q&A at Boulder Bookstore
June 8, 1995
“On Investments,” Speech at Minnesota Social Investment Forum
June 7, 1993 (See transcript link below.)
Transcripts of DQ Speeches
- Bioneers — Address to the Texas Bioneers’ Conference, October 15, 2005
- On Investments — Address to the Minnesota Social Investment Forum, Minneapolis, June 7, 1993
- The New Renaissance — Address at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, March 7, 2002
- Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself? — Address at Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, October 18, 2000
- Schooling: The Hidden Agenda — A speech at a Houston area home-schooling/unschooling conference, 2000
- A Path of Hope for the Future — Keynote address at the 2000 Houston Youth Environmental Leadership Conference, January 26, 2000
- Technology & the Other War — Address at the Student Pugwash “Technologies of Peace” Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
- The Human Future: A Problem in Design — Address at EnvironDesign 3, Baltimore, MD, April 30, 1999
- The Little Engine That Couldn’t: How We’re Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction — Address at the annual conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Vancouver, BC, August 16, 1997
- Reaching for the Future with All Three Hands — Address at Kent State University, Earth Day, 1998
- Protecting the Environment: Whose Business Is It? — Address at the Sixth Annual Rice University Environmental Conference, Houston, February 14, 1998
Daniel Quinn reads his work
“At Woomeroo”
“City Dogs”
“Hearing from Friends”
“Regarding the Snakes”
“The Book of the Damned”