Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseleywas an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 September 1907
CountryUnited States of America
song stars sunshine
Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.
flower thinking effort
I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.
regret borders form
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
nature men law
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.
friendship survival
I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.
men missing matter
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
philosophy men modern
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
tomorrow
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before....
loneliness night years
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.
philosophy thinking games
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.
philosophy struggle men
Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
time philosophy dark
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.
shadow i-am-what-i-am
I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.
men birth greater
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.