“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
“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.” MenWorldMindPastUniverseForceNaturalAnimalHistoryGenerationsAirSeaStrangeForestsEverlastingTrailsPathwaysStrange World Author:Loren Eiseley
“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.” PastMovingFormScienceWaterCommonAirSeaFuturePerfectionShiningAssumingCastsBonesWanderSubstanceHeightExquisiteSnowflake Author:Loren Eiseley
“After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.” LongTodayPastFoundEffortTakenPositionEvolutionMiracleMythMythologyAssumptionTheologianRelianceOrigin Of LifePrimeval 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
“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.” WritingHeartTodayPastSpeakPoetMessagesSpeciesShallowKnowledge Of The Past Author:Loren Eiseley
