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

Loren Eiseley

#Running Quotes #Air Quotes #Water Quotes

“Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.”
“I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.”
“I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.”
“They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.”
“The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.”
“Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.”
“I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.”
“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.”

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