Loren Eiseley Quote

We in the modern world have turned more stones, listened to more buried voices, than any culture before us. There should be a kind of pity that comes with time, when one grows truly conscious and looks behind as well as forward, for nothing is more brutally savage than the man who is not aware that he is a shadow.

The Night Country, Chapter 6 (p. 85), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1971

We in the modern world have turned more stones, listened to more buried voices, than any culture before us. There should be a kind of pity that comes ...

We in the modern world have turned more stones, listened to more buried voices, than any culture before us. There should be a kind of pity that comes ...

We in the modern world have turned more stones, listened to more buried voices, than any culture before us. There should be a kind of pity that comes ...

We in the modern world have turned more stones, listened to more buried voices, than any culture before us. There should be a kind of pity that comes ...