Showing posts with label EISELEY Loren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EISELEY Loren. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Familiar?

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     Apes were to become men, in the inscrutable wisdom of nature . . .Down on the grass by a streamside, one of those apes with inquisitive...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Loren Eiseley: The Long Loneliness (from The Star Thrower)

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Loren Eiseley "The Long Loneliness" an essay in The Star Thrower The first two paragraphs of "The Long Loneliness," ...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Loren Eiseley: "The Innocent Fox"

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This is an excerpt from an essay in Loren Eiseley's collection, The Star Thrower.   The essay is titled "The Innocent Fox." ...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Loren Eiseley and Robert Silverberg: a strange pairing?

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Robert Silverberg Downward to the Earth an SF novel Loren Eiseley The Star Thrower essays   I found the following conversation in...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Loren Eiseley: The Star Thrower

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The blurb on the back page says it better than I can: Long admired for his compassionate, probing meditations on the natural world, Loren ...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Loren Eiseley: "The Sandburs Say No"

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Life is persistent and patient.  I think Life is the source of the saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."  L...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Loren Eiseley: Coyote Country

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COYOTE COUNTRY If you should go, soft-footed and  alert, Down the long slope of shale Into a tumbled land of scarp and butte Beyond ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Loren Eiseley: "Fly Falcon"

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Fly Falcon All of the falcon kind, the hard travelling                                  talon-clawed ones that for so many years I have...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Loren Eiseley: Meaningless Voices

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Loren Eiseley (1907-1977), as you may have noticed, is one of my favorite essayists and prose writers, possibly my favorite, if I ever took ...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Loren Eiseley: THE NIGHT COUNTRY

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"To an anthropologist, the social reception of invention reminds one of the manner in which a strange young male is first repulsed, th...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Loren Eiseley: from THE NIGHT COUNTRY

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"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.  If he is more...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Loren Eiseley: In the Tales to Come

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In The Tales To Come "I have met the echo people, coyotes, once in my youth, deep in a badland canyon, coming upon them unaware.  ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable, pt. 3

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"A few years ago I chanced to write a book in which I had expressed some personal views and feelings upon birds, bones, spiders, and ti...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable, pt. 2

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This quotation follows directly after the quotation included in the earlier post titled "Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable."  I ha...
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable

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"Physicists, it now appears, are convinced that a principle of uncertainty exists in the submicroscopic realm of particles and that out...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Loren Eiseley: on stability

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"Life is never fixed and stable.  It is always mercurial, rolling and splitting, disappearing and re-emerging in a most unpredictable f...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Loren Eiseley: Darwin's Century

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Actually, the full title of this book by Loren Eiseley is Darwin's Century:  Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It.  The most signific...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Loren Eiseley: Some short poems and a haiku by Roka

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Footnote to Autumn Old boulders in the autumn sun and wind, Settling a little, leaning toward the light As if to store its summer--these...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Immersion: Wendell Berry and Loren Eiseley

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"I have been walking in the woods, and have lain down on the ground to rest.  It is the middle of October, and around me, all through t...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Loren Eiseley: "Wind Child"

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WIND CHILD They have just found where Monarch butterflies go                                                                   in autu...