Geologic Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… — John Burroughs
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — A. E. Douglass
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't… — Robert B. Laughlin
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when… — Harrison Schmitt
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and… — David M. Raup
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored… — Steve Squyres
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to… — Hubertus Strughold
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. — Mark Twain
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they… — N. Scott Momaday
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. — Hugh Miller
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient. — Frans Lanting
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene.… — Kate Bernheimer
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish… — Robert Morgan

Who Wrote These Geologic Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Geologic Quotes as follows: