For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

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.