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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are…
— Loren Eiseley
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,…
— Bill Mollison
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If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even…
— Lewis Thomas
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The…
— James Salter
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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the…
— Daphne du Maurier
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...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in…
— Margaret Mead
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