Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Loren EiseleyMind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
Loren EiseleyI once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.
Loren EiseleyMany of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
Loren Eiseley