Boredom Quote by D. V. Ager

The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the…

— Emile Argand

“It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way…

— James Curcio

“there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.”

— Helen Simpson

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe…

— William S. Burroughs

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

— Will Durant

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á…

— Charles Lyell

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity,…

— Charles Darwin

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— Roderick Murchison

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes…

— Seth Shostak