--- title: "3 Eocene Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Eocene quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Eocene sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/alex-shoumatoff-25223_around_nature-got-it-right-with-the-cranes-they_166586.png" --- > [Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/nature-got-it-right-with-the-cranes-they-have-been-around-since-the/) [Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/alex-shoumatoff-25223_around_nature-got-it-right-with-the-cranes-they_166586.png) > [“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-matthiessen/a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-the-river-s-heavy-wash-morning/) [Peter Matthiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-matthiessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/peter-matthiessen-5795_beauty_a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-t_421904.jpg) > [“I have had a lifelong association with these things. (Odd that the word 'trees' does not apply.) I can accept them and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-have-had-a-lifelong-association-with-these-things-odd-that-the-word/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/john-steinbeck-71_long-ago_i-have-had-a-lifelong-association-with-t_2109183.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eocene/#itemlist", "name": "Eocene Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nature got it right with the cranes. 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The rise of the Himalaya, begun in the Eocene, some fifty million years ago, is still continuing: an earthquake in 1959 caused mountains to fall into the rivers and changed the course of the great Brahmaputra, which comes down out of Tibet through northeastern India to join the Ganges near its delta at the Bay of Bengal.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Matthiessen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-matthiessen/a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-the-river-s-heavy-wash-morning/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/peter-matthiessen-5795_beauty_a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-t_421904.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/peter-matthiessen-5795_beauty_a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-t_421904.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/peter-matthiessen-5795_beauty_a-far-cicada-rings-high-and-clear-over-t_421904.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. 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And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left--a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? 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