Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness. Loren Eiseley
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious.. .. Space is, after all, solid, monolithic.. .. Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would...
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Anonymous
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of...
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Carl Sagan
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
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Albert Einstein
The words beat through me like a cosmic string that threatened to dissolve my molecular bonds. The wave fed upon itself until the tsunami it created swept me out of my life and into a world of confinement that broached vastness. That, after all, was...
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William David Hannah
I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.
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Meia Geddes
More Quotes By Loren Eiseley
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked...
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp.. Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term...
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be...
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.
