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> [Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/like-the-herd-animals-we-are-we-sniff-warily-at-the-strange-one-among/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

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## More by Loren Eiseley

> [“Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/taking-a-final-pleasure-in-what-the-wind-can-neither-proclaim-nor/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/we-are-one-of-many-appearances-of-the-thing-called-life-we-are-not/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/perhaps-a-creature-of-so-much-ingenuity-and-deep-memory-is-almost/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [“The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/the-best-way-to-be-resurrected-is-to-be-forgotten/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/to-have-dragons-one-must-have-change-that-is-the-first-principle-of/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/it-is-frequently-the-tragedy-of-the-great-artist-as-it-is-of-the/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/every-time-we-walk-along-a-beach-some-ancient-urge-disturbs-us-so/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/the-future-is-neither-ahead-nor-behind-on-one-side-or-another-nor-is/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/out-of-the-choked-devonian-waters-emerged-sight-and-sound-and-the/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/one-could-not-pluck-a-flower-without-troubling-a-star/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/i-once-saw-on-a-flower-pot-in-my-own-living-room-the-efforts-of-a/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/lights-come-and-go-in-the-night-sky-men-troubled-at-last-by-the/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/the-secret-if-one-may-paraphrase-a-savage-vocabulary-lies-in-the-egg/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/without-the-gift-of-flowers-and-the-infinite-diversity-of-their/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

> [“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve the princess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/black-magic-the-magic-of-the-primeval-chaos-blots-out-or/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

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