One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
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From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.Loren Eiseley
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley
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 mans brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.
Loren Eiseley
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.
Loren Eiseley
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eiseley
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