It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. - Loren Eiseley
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
- Loren Eiseley
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us - Loren Eiseley
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the… - Loren Eiseley
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the…
We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star. - Loren Eiseley
We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of… - Loren Eiseley
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of…
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. - Loren Eiseley
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudi… - Loren Eiseley
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudi…
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. - Loren Eiseley
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wis… - Loren Eiseley
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wis…
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