Loren Eiseley Quotes

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

Together, Put, Universe

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley

Flower, Star, Troubling

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.
Loren Eiseley

Time, War, Long

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Loren Eiseley

Mind, Human, May

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

God, Knows, Matters

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

Strange, Among, Herd

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

Human, Until, Reflection

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

Tomorrow, Before, Achieved

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

Water, Magic, Planet

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

Great, Artist, Tragedy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 3, 1907

Died: July 9, 1977

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