This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

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.