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I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
— Loren Eiseley
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
— Loren Eiseley
There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.
— 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.
— Loren Eiseley
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
— Loren Eiseley
Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
— Loren Eiseley
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
— Loren Eiseley
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
— Loren Eiseley
We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.
— Loren Eiseley
From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
— Loren Eiseley
I no longer cared about survival ... I merely loved.
— Loren Eiseley
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
— Loren Eiseley
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
— Loren Eiseley
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
— Loren Eiseley
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
— Loren Eiseley
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
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
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
The plan is not what you think.
— Loren Eiseley
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
It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth's first midnight.
— Loren Eiseley
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
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
— Loren Eiseley
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
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
— Loren Eiseley
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
The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.
— Loren Eiseley
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
— Loren Eiseley
At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
— Loren Eiseley
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
— Loren Eiseley
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
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
The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.
— Loren Eiseley
Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
— Loren Eiseley
I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.
— Loren Eiseley
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
— Loren Eiseley
In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.
— Loren Eiseley