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Loren Eiseley quotes: I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
Loren Eiseley quotes: The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
Loren Eiseley quotes: There is nothing very 'normal' about nature. There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. 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 quotes: One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
Loren Eiseley quotes: We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star. We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.
Loren Eiseley quotes: From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I no longer cared about survival ... I merely loved. I no longer cared about survival ... I merely loved.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren Eiseley quotes: In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning. Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
Loren Eiseley quotes: You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned. You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself. Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The plan is not what you think. The plan is not what you think.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become. I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
Loren Eiseley quotes: It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth's first midnight. It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth's first midnight.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Every man contains within himself a ghost continent. Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
Loren Eiseley quotes: To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.
Loren Eiseley quotes: It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eiseley quotes: When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
Loren Eiseley quotes: It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all. The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.
Loren Eiseley quotes: One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley quotes: At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
Loren Eiseley quotes: If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley quotes: It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey. It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything. I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten. The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.
Loren Eiseley quotes: Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days. Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
Loren Eiseley quotes: I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows. I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.
Loren Eiseley quotes: God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley quotes: The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.
Loren Eiseley quotes: In the days of the frost seek an minor sun. In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.
Loren Eiseley quotes: If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession.

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