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Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

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The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous
The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous

“The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.”

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The Muskrat and the Meaning of Life: Loren Eiseley on Reclaiming Our Sense of the Miraculous in a Mechanical Age
The Muskrat and the Meaning of Life: Loren Eiseley on Reclaiming Our Sense of the Miraculous in a Mechanical Age

“We forget that nature itself is one vast miracle transcending the reality of night and nothingness. We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle.”

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Love Anyway
Love Anyway

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How to Cherish Your Human Condition: The Poetic Naturalist Loren Eiseley on the Meaning of Life
How to Cherish Your Human Condition: The Poetic Naturalist Loren Eiseley on the Meaning of Life

“The truth is that we are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age.”

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Loren Eiseley on the Relationship Between Nature and Human Nature
Loren Eiseley on the Relationship Between Nature and Human Nature

A poetic meditation on “the sole prescription, not for survival — which is meaningless — but for a society worthy to survive.”

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