#Loren Eiseley

[fallensapphires]

Places: The Aquarium

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in the water.

Requested by @kaiyves-backup

[key-cat]

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

この惑星に魔法があるのならば、それは水の中にある。

Loren Eiseley ローレン・アイズ��ー　

[explore-blog]

To the degree that we let others project upon us erroneous or unbalanced conceptions of our natures, we may unconsciously reshape our own image to less pleasing forms. It is one thing to be “realistic,” as many are fond of saying, about human nature. It is another thing entirely to let that consideration set limits to our spiritual aspirations or to precipitate us into cynicism and despair. 

Wonderful read.

[dk-thrive]

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort... It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.”

― Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe (Mariner Books, October 18, 1972) (via Alive on All Channels)

[julesofnature]

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” ~ Loren Eiseley 

[antronaut]

Loren Eiseley

[cutiewithawakenedheart]

"I live and I endure,

grow in compassion."

----Loren Eiseley

[wehavewords]

“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”

Loren Eiseley, The Night Country

[wellconstructedsentences]

He who seeks naively to embrace his own time will accept its masks and illusions.

The Night Country by Loren Eiseley

[victusinveritas]

Loren Eiseley, THE FIRMAMENT OF TIME.

[johnesimpson]

Seeing What We Want to See, Seeing What We Don't -- But Seeing, Regardless

Richard Feynman, Brenda Hillman, et al.: 'Seeing What We Want to See, Seeing What We Don’t -- But Seeing, Regardless'

[Image: “No Mowing (No Kidding),” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.) I admit, I laughed when I saw this sign — planted, as it was, in the center of a large marshy area beside the path.] From whiskey river: One of the most impressive discoveries was the origin of the energy of the stars, that makes them continue…

[disceautdiscede]

We cling to a time and a place because without them man is lost, not only man but life. [...] It is as though all living creatures, and particularly the more intelligent, can survive only by fixing or transforming a bit of time into space or by securing a bit of space with its objects immortalized and made permanent in time.

-Loren Eiseley, The Brown Wasps

[key-cat]

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

この惑星に魔法があるのならば、それは水の中にある。

Loren Eiseley ローレン・アイズリー　

[vinylonly]

"I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows."

Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe, 1964

[honeysucklesilence]

we cannot pluck a flower without disturbing a star

loren eiseley

[webweabings]

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS ONLY THE OCEAN

“Accepting the Universe” (1920), by John Burroughs; // “Literary Paper” (1855), by Edward Forbes; // “A Thousand Flamingos” by Sanober Khan; // Sylvia Earle; // “Wither” (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano; // “The Immense Journey” ch. The Flow of the River (1957), by Loren Eiseley; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Heinrich Zimmer; // “Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems” (1962), by William Carlos Williams; // “Sandry’s Book” (Circle of Magic Quartet), by Tamora Pierce; // “The Sea”, by Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter); // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Erica Billups; // Robert Wyland; // “Eragon” (The Inheritance Cycle Tetralogy), by Christopher Paolini; // Christy Ann Martine; // Robert Wyland; // “Le testament d'Orphée” (1960), by Jean Cocteau; // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // “The Infinite Moment of Us”, by Lauren Myracle; // “American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps”, by Julian Hawthorne