Loren Eiseley Quotes

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

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.

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

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

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

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

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

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.

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

I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved.

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

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.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.