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.

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

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

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

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

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

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