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#primeval

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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.


Dylan Moran


#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.


Barbara Tuchman


#fell #forest #friend #heard #none

...; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still. They brought forcibly to one's mind the night of ages when the primeval man, evolving the first rudiments of cookery from his dim consciousness, scorched lumps of flesh at a fire of sticks...


Joseph Conrad


#primeval-man #tales-of-the-sea #age

Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men: when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn. To this day he thinks of what he termed years later in a sermon 'savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.' ("The Wendigo")


Algernon Blackwood


#monster #monstrous #nature #primeval #primeval-man

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.


Stephen Jay Gould


#ago #arose #because #began #billion

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.


Henry Beston


#elemental #great #nature #ocean #outer






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