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
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
-- Loren Eiseley
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“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” ~ Loren Eiseley
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"I live and I endure,
grow in compassion."
----Loren Eiseley
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“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”
Loren Eiseley, The Night Country
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He who seeks naively to embrace his own time will accept its masks and illusions.
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley
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Loren Eiseley, THE FIRMAMENT OF TIME.
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Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.
Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe (Library of America, November 15, 2016) (via The Hammock Papers)
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley
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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.]
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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
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"I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows."
Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe, 1964
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we cannot pluck a flower without disturbing a star
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"Time and the world love change."
----Loren Eiseley
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“I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.”
Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe
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