Algae Quote by Asa Baber

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide…

— John Steinbeck

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.

— Henry Gray

I used to have a pet crawfish, so my friend made a mold of its claws and bronzed a key chain for me out…

— Betsy Brandt

All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

— Khalil Gibran

“The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties—for rocks cannot seem to…

— Alan Wilson Watts

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to…

— Ambrose Bierce

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries…

— Georges Cuvier

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and…

— William Falconer