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Tyrannosaurs, enormous bipedal caricatures of men, would stalk mindlessly across the sites of future cities and go their slow way down into the dark of geologic time.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - 1957.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

Some lands are flat and grass-covered, and smile so evenly up at the sun that they seem forever youthful, untouched by man or time.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - 1957.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

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 humanity a slime mold organism it is because our present environment suggest it. If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. If I dream by contrast of the eventual drift of the star voyagers through the dilated time of the universe, it is because I have seen thistledown off to new worlds and am at heart a voyager who, in this modern time, still yearns for the lost country of his birth.

The Invisible Pyramid - 1971.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

While wandering a deserted beach at dawn, stagnant in my work, I saw a man in the distance bending and throwing as he walked the endless stretch toward me. As he came near, I could see that he was throwing starfish, abandoned on the sand by the tide, back into the sea. When he was close enough I asked him why he was working so hard at this strange task. He said that the sun would dry the starfish and they would die. I said to him that I thought he was foolish. There were thousands of starfish on miles and miles of beach. One man alone could never make a difference. He smiled as he picked up the next starfish. Hurling it far into the sea he said, "It makes a difference for this one." I abandoned my writing and spent the morning throwing starfish.

The Star Thrower" is part of a sixteen page essay. Published in 1969 in The Unexpected Universe. The Star Thrower is also the title of a 1978 anthology of Eiseley's work, including the essay, which he completed shortly before his death.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - 1957.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

Already humanity is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - 1957.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

The Firmament of Time - 1960.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature - 1957.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

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

The Night Country - 1971.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

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

The Unexpected Universe - 1969.

Humanity, Evolution, Author

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