![]() ![]() His writings have been called the musings of an “imaginative naturalist” looking for some deeper meaning or message in the fossil record as well as in the contemporary natural world. Some are torn, ravaged, and convulsed like the features of profane old age.” “Some lands are flat and grass covered, and smile so evenly up at the sun that they seem forever youthful, untouched by man or time. Much of his academic work involved searching for evidence of post-glacial man in the plains and mountains of the western United States which he describes so well. Loren Eiseley was born to a homesteading family in Nebraska in 1907 and eventually rose to become the Head of the Department Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() Bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus (click on photos to zoom) ![]()
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