the earth but could not stay", which is a line from his poem The Little Treasures. A library in the Lincoln City Libraries public library system is named after Eiseley. Loren Eiseley was awarded the Distinguished Nebraskan Award and inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. A bust of him resides in the Nebraska State Capitol. Legacy In summarizing some of Eiseley's contributions, the editor of The Bloomsbury Review wrote, There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available ... We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature ... His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery. On October 25, 2007, the Governor of Nebraska, Dave Heineman, officially declared that year "The Centennial Year of Loren Eiseley." In a written proclamation, he encouraged all Nebraskans to read Loren Eisely's writings and to appreciate in those writings the richness and beauty of his language, his ability to depict the long, slow passage of time and the meaning of the past in the present, his portrayal of the relationships among all living things and his concern for the future. Bibliography Major works Charles Darwin, (1956) W.H. Freeman The Immense Journey (1957) Vintage Books, Random House Darwin's Century (1958) Doubleday The Firmament of Time (1960) Atheneum The Man Who Saw Through Time (1973) Scribner The Mind as Nature (1962) Harper and Row Man, Time, and Prophecy, (1966) Harcourt, Brace & World The Unexpected Universe (1969) Harcourt, Brace and World The Invisible Pyramid: A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century (1971) Devin-Adair Pub. The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man (1971) Scribner The Star Thrower (1978) Times Books, Random House Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists (1979) E.P. Dutton The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley, Kenneth Heuer editor, (1987) Little Brown & Co. How Flowers Changed the World, with photographs by Gerald Ackerman. (1996) Random House Anthology Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and