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I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

Loren Eiseley

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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
Anthropologist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Science Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Borders
Forms
Regret
Beyond
Form
Love

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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.
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I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
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I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.
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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.
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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.
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This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.
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