Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

- 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…

- Loren Eiseley

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

- 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…

- Loren Eiseley

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

- Loren Eiseley

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- Loren Eiseley