Acquire Quote by Erasmus Darwin

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of…

— Honoré de Balzac

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....

— Joseph Joubert

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and…

— Shirley Jackson

“Throughout the earth there are ancient forms, forms incorruptible and eternal; any one of them could be the symbol I sought. A mountain could…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

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 I would point out that there is another and still more important function of great mountains - the culture not of athletic faculty…

— Henry Stephens Salt

“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to…

— F. Sionil José