The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.
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.
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…
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 it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the … - Loren Eiseley
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the …
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.
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