Loren Eiseley Resources

Biographical Resources

1. The Loren Eiseley site maintained by the friends of Loren Eiseley Society.
2. "The Man from the Sunflower Forest: A Loren Eiseley Reader," a site maintained by Charles Haynes.
3. "Searching for Loren Eiseley: An Attempt at Reconstruction from a Few Fragments" by Gene Glass.
4. "He centered unrelentingly on zero" by Carl Heintze.
5. "Birds of a Feather: Loren Eiseley" by Tom Thomson.
6. "Birds of a Feather: Halley's Comet" by Tom Thomson.
7. A biography by Nancy Barnes.
8. A brief biography from the Nebraska Department of Education Social Science Resources.
9. A short biography by Sadie Anderson.


Thoughts about Eiseley's Work

1. "A Reader's Journal" by Bobby Matherne.
2. "Excavating the Self" by Vivian Gornick.
3. "The Unexpected Christ," a sermon preached by Theodore Parker Ferris at Trinity Episcopal Church, Boston, 1969.
4. "Seed Work: Loren Eiseley" by George Myers Jr.
5. "The Odyssey of Loren Eiseley" by David Lavery.
6. A book review by Ron Scheer.


Some Writings of Loren Eiseley that are on the Web

1. "The Brown Wasps" from The Night Country.
2. "An Evolutionist Looks at Modern Man" from The Saturday Evening Post.
3. Part of The Immense Journey used in an example of how to write html.


Quotations and Longer Excerpts from Eiseley's Work

1. An Eiseley quotation on the past used by a man with a collection of antique tools.
2. A quotation about tools. (Scroll down slightly to "Opening Words.")
3. A quotation "on fitting in" from The Mind as Nature.
4. A quotation "on blindness" from "The Slit" in The Immense Journey.
5. The National Park Service website also has a quotation from The Immense Journey.
6. A quotation on the Art For Animals website.
7. The same quotation with a sleepy rabbit.
8. Eiseley's well-known thoughts on the magic of water.
9. A quotation about "the tragedy of the great artist" from The Night Country. (Scroll about 2/3rds down the page.)
10. A passage from "The Flow of the River" in The Immense Journey. (Scroll about half way down the page.)
11. Another passage from "The Flow of the River". (Again, scroll about half way down the page.)
12. A excerpt from The Immense Journey used in support of creationism. (Scroll down slightly.)
13. The same passage again in support of creationism. (Scroll half way down the page.)
14. A quotation on being an outlaw. (Scroll half way down the page.)
15. Eiseley's thoughts on modern life.
16. An excerpt from "Darwin's Century: Evolution and the men who discovered it." (At the end of the first lengthy paragraph.)
17. "Quotes on Freedom and Differences."
18. An excerpt from "The Innocent Fox" in The Star Thrower. (Quote of the Week - 1998.07.19)
19. A quotation from The Invisible Pyramid. (At the end of the page.)
20. A large collection of Eiseley quotations from many of his works.
21. A passage about civilizations from The Invisible Pyramid. (At the end of the page.)
22. An excerpt from "The Star Thrower" on loneliness. (Again, at the end of the page.)
23. Two Eiseley quotations on the Quote Lady's site. (The authors here are listed alphabetically.)
24. A series of quotations from The Man Who Saw Through Time: Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma.
25. An excerpt from "The Judgment of the Birds" in The Immense Journey. (At the end of the page.)
26. A diver's favorite passage about "the immense journey."
27. Another quotation on "the journey."
28. A unique quotation from The Immense Journey.

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Last modified December 11, 2000