Loren Eiseley Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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  Nature, Men, Animal

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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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• 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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• God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

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  Men, Missing, Matter

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• One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

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  Eye, Men, Light

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• Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

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  Men, Ghost, Continents

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• The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

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  Lying, Night, Vocabulary

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• There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

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  Normal

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.63, Vintage

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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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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Games

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.148, Library of America

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• In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

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  Frost, Sun, Minors

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• The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.

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  Blood, Iron, Brain

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• Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

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  Men, Doe, Genius

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

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  Tomorrow

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• Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

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  Fire, Insatiable Hunger, Cost

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