Loren Eiseley Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

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

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

• 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... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Animal

  "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

• Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

  Loren Eiseley

  Freedom, Animal, Differences

• Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.

  Loren Eiseley

  Animal, Past, Men

• Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Animal

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