Loren Eiseley Quotes

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

I suppose there is nothing regular about my life.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

The world is a very abnormal place.

You never can tell with bees.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Every day is bizarre.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

Nature hates calculators.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.