It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.” — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
