Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

With that great countercultural courage of defying cynicism, Eiseley insists that it was the humans who nourished the highest in their nature by means of love, who lived with such exquisite tenderness for life in all of its expressions, that propelled our species from the caves to the cathedrals, from savagery to sonnets.

It may be that we are only here to learn how to love.