Detached Quote 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Loren Eiseley

“The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.”

— Loren Eiseley

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

— Loren Eiseley

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

— 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…

— 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…

— Loren Eiseley