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. -Loren Eiseley

 

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.


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Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

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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.

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I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.

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