Air Quote by Archibald Geikie

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them,…

— Diane Lane

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer…

— Marianne Wiggins

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

— Neil Armstrong

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

— John Burroughs

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They…

— Terry Pratchett

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led…

— Granville Penn

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the…

— James Hutton

“To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.”

— Anne Fadiman

“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion”

— Stefan Molyneux

“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

“The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself…

— Marguerite Yourcenar