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.
From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
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.
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.
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.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
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.
Life may exist in yonder dark, but it will not wear the shape of man
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
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