Geology Quote by Edward Abbey

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Finding outcrops is easy in arid and mountainous areas, where naked rock lies basking in the sun. But in humid and topographically subtle areas…

— Marcia Bjornerud

But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even…

— Bill Bryson

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones…

— Anonymous

The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of…

— John Burroughs

“Outside, I shivered in a landscape of greys and silvers, the stone walls and cobbles looming pale in the wintry air. The only true…

— Martine Bailey

“The train continued on its way to Rīga. I could not peel my eyes from the window. On some hillock, an old friend from…

— Melānija Vanaga

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“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

We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been…

— Steve Squyres

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary…

— Annie Dillard