All 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. Always Marveling
- One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Animal
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed… Along
- God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. Assuming
- If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Contained
- In the days of the frost seek an minor sun. Days
- The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like… All
- It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… All
- Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… Across
- To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. Change
- As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… Another Great
- Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… Alone
- This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent… Capable
- We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life,… Appearance
- Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around… Ability
- If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we… Civilization
- The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us… Allegiance
- I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows. Inspirational
- I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us Beyond
- When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. Becomes
- Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting… Air
- One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. Flower
- Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape Drawing