Drawing Quote by Adam Sedgwick

Geological time is not money.

— Mark Twain

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history. In the…

— Edward Abbey

“Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push up a…

— Keith Meldahl

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of…

— John Burroughs

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

— Dan Wells

Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is…

— Charles Lapworth

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth