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
Some, Shedding, Refugees, Homesick
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
- Loren Eiseley
Nature, Star, Could, Flower
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
- Loren Eiseley
Own, Will, Becoming, Smug
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
- Loren Eiseley
Tragedy, Ordinary Man, Frighten
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
- Loren Eiseley
Tomorrow, Before, Achieved, Lurks
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, Reason, May, Human Mind
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
Always, Limitation, Blown, Apart
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
- Loren Eiseley
Animals, Like, Among, Sniff
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
- Loren Eiseley
Water, Magic, Planet, Contained
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
- Loren Eiseley
Eye, Meet, Other, Oneself
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