“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.” RememberBrainBloodMovedIronSavages Author:Loren Eiseley
“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.” PeopleMenNeedsHandsPastBrainBreakBearsHabitGunRootsMachinesBlindIceTigersAllegianceVery DeepMachine Guns Author:Loren Eiseley
“Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.” WorldTryingStillsSoundWaterBrainAirTreeSeaBirdSightFishesInvisibleFixedClimbsComposerUneasySwampsNaturalistSight And SoundFish In The SeaNigerSea Birds Book:The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
“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.” MenMindHumansDoeImportantBodyLastsUniverseNatureForgetAnimalBrainQualityDevelopmentHighestRegardPlantUnexpectedRemarkableHuman MindProtectedSheerUnseenConsumedForget ItStarvingMetabolismCombustion Author:Loren Eiseley
“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.” WantWantedMemoriesBrainDesignTreasureOddFunny ThingsJuxtaposition Author:Loren Eiseley
