We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Read about seeds hieroglyphs on Loren Eiseleylls the Ice Age lost tombs city dumps and primitive Man.

At his death he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. PubliLoren Eiseleyrs Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau. but a continuation of what the 18th and 19th century British naturalists and Thoreau had done.