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Loren Eiseley Quotes

Loren Eiseley quotes about nature

American Scientist September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977

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A world like that is not really natural, or (the thought strikes one later) perhaps it really is, only more so. Parts of it are neither land nor sea and so everything is moving from one element to another, wearing uneasily the queer transitional bodies that life adopts in such places. Fish, some of them, come out and breathe air and sit about watching you. Plants take to eating insects, mammals go back to the water and grow elongate like fish, crabs climb trees. Nothing stays put where it... Loren Eiseley
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. 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 live for a time in the wilderness. If he is of the proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek, but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel, and these are always worth listening to and thinking about.... One must seek, then, what only the solitary... Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley quote: "The truth is, however, that there is nothing very “normal”..."
The truth is, however, that there is nothing very “normal” about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all. Loren Eiseley
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster. Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley quote: "When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us..."
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley quote: "There is nothing very 'normal' about nature."
There is nothing very 'normal' about nature. Loren Eiseley

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