“The truth is, however, that there is nothing very “normal” about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.” — 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
“It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth’s first midnight.” — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of… — 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
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
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
“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
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
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and… — 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
“A world like that is not really natural, or (the thought strikes one later) perhaps it really is, only more so. Parts… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our… — 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
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
“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
