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

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  Freedom, Animal, Differences

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• Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

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  Flower, Men, Diversity

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.77, Vintage

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

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  Life, Philosophy, Future

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.50, Library of America

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

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  Believe, Choices, Childhood

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• 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.

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  Time, Philosophy, Dark

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.63, Library of America

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• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

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  Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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• At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

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  Faces, Core, Universe

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• Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

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  Nature, Men, Self

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.105, Library of America

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• Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

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  Dream, Loneliness, Lying

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.162, Vintage

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• The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

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  Creativity, Mind, Crafts

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• 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.

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  Fear, Philosophy, Struggle

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.121, Library of America

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

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  Heart, Men, Solitude

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• I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

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  Fate, Shadow, Brooding

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

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  Drawing, Usual, Tasks

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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• Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

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  Men, Secret, Alphabet

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• Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.

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  Lonely, Wine, Sunset

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• 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.

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  Flower, Thinking, Effort

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• It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

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  Human Nature

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.153, Library of America

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• 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.

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  Nature, Men, Law

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.117, Library of America

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• Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

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  Writing, Heart, Past

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• The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.

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  Fashion, Men, Creative

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• The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

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  Artist, Musician, Poet

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.113, Library of America

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• To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

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  Dragons, Principles, Firsts

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.60, Library of America

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• It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

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  Memories, Funny Things, Design

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• Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

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  Life, Roots, Long

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.178, Library of America

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