"Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's……" — Loren Eiseley

"Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process."

— Loren Eiseley

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