Animated Quote by Emile Argand

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing…

— D. V. Ager

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

— Bernhard Schlink

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework…

— Reinhold Messner

“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

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

— Tracy Kidder

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history…

— Charles Darwin

[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

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in…

— Eugene S. Ferguson

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

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient…

— Georges Cuvier

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell…

— Jones Very