The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

Loren Eiseley

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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, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the pres... by Loren Eiseley

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

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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 power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

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From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dread... by Loren Eiseley

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

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Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

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The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

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There is nothing very 'normal' about nature. by Loren Eiseley

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

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Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

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The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. by Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

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