Citas de Loren Eiseley

• Somos muñecos de trapo hechos de muchas edades y pieles, mutantes que han dormido en nidos de madera y han siseado bajo la grosera apariencia de anfibios contoneantes. Hemos interpretado esos papeles durante épocas infinitamente más largas de lo que hemos sido humanos. Nuestra identidad es un sueño. Somos proceso, no realidad.

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  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• Si hay magia en este planeta, está contenida en el agua.

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  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

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  Gun, Past, Men

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• If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

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  Civilization, Tree, Done

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• Al final, la ciencia tal como la conocemos tiene dos tipos básicos de practicantes. Uno es el hombre culto que aún conserva un controlado sentido de la maravilla ante el misterio universal, ya se esconda en el ojo de un caracol o dentro de la luz que incide en ese delicado órgano. El segundo tipo de observador es el reduccionista extremo que está tan ocupado desmenuzando las cosas que el tremendo misterio ha quedado reducido a una nimiedad, a intangibles por los que no merece la pena preocuparse.

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  Ojo, Ciencia, Hombres

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• The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

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  Travel, Memorable, Journey

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.12, Vintage

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

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  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• Desde que el primer ojo humano vio una hoja en la arenisca del Devónico y un dedo perplejo la tocó, la tristeza ha invadido el corazón del hombre. Por este tenue hilo de protoplasma vivo, que se extiende hacia atrás en el tiempo, estamos unidos para siempre a playas perdidas cuyas arenas hace tiempo que se han convertido en piedra. Las estrellas que captaron nuestra ciega mirada anfibia se han desplazado lejos o han desaparecido en su curso, pero aún así ese hilo desnudo y brillante sigue serpenteando. Nadie conoce el secreto de su principio o su fin. Sus formas son fantasmas. Sólo el hilo es real; el hilo es la vida.

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  Beach, Stars, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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• El hombre siempre se maravilla de lo que ha hecho estallar, nunca de lo que el universo ha unido, y ésta es su limitación.

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  Men, Together, Marveling

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• We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

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  Stars, Flower, Pluck

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• We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

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  Perfect, Life Is, Appearance

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.59, Vintage

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• Sobre toda la Tierra -este globo infinitamente pequeño que posee todo lo que conocemos del sol y del canto de los pájaros- se arrastra una plaga desconocida: el hombre, el hombre, que se ha convertido por fin en una enfermedad planetaria y que, si su tecnología aún se lo permitiera, pasaría esta infección a otra estrella.

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  Song, Stars, Sunshine

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• I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

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  Regret, Borders, Form

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• The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

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  Single Mom, Men, Substance

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• It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.

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  Littles, Today, Assumption

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• When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

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  Men, Birth, Greater

  "The Invisible Pyramid".

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• Aunque los hombres de la masa olvidan los orígenes de su necesidad, siguen llevando perros lobo a los apartamentos de la ciudad, donde perro y hombre se sientan a meditar con melancólica incomodidad. La magia que resplandece un instante entre Argos y Odiseo es tanto el reconocimiento de la diversidad como la necesidad de afecto a través de las ilusiones de la forma. Es el grito de la naturaleza al hombre sin hogar, errante e insaciable: "No olvides a tus hermanos ni el bosque verde del que surgiste. Hacerlo es invitar al desastre".

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  Dog, Men, Cities

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• Cada vez que caminamos por una playa, un antiguo impulso nos perturba y nos vemos despojándonos de zapatos y prendas de vestir o rebuscando entre algas y maderos blanqueados como refugiados nostálgicos de una larga guerra.

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  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

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  Religious, Men, Vision

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• Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

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  Nature, Memories, Suffering

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America

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• Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.

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  Animal, Past, Men

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• We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

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  Profesor, Aprendizaje, Escuela

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.43, Library of America

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

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  Beach, War, Animal

  "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

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  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• The plan is not what you think.

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  Thinking, Plans

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