Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey Quotes
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.
Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
