Loren Eiseley quotes

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 and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. (Loren Eiseley)

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Loren Eiseley

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Loren Eiseley

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 should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Loren Eiseley

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 to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

Loren Eiseley

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us.

Loren Eiseley

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 and love for a time in the wilderness.

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

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

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

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

Loren Eiseley

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren Eiseley

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

Loren Eiseley

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Loren Eiseley

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley

Occupation: American Scientist
Born: September 3, 1907
Died: July 9, 1977
Quotes count: 16

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