[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.
Loren EiseleyMany of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
Loren EiseleyIf 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.
Loren EiseleyIt was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
Loren Eiseley