Ancient Quote by Georges Cuvier

“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

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials…

— John Playfair

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists…

— Henry David Thoreau

[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

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

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

— Anne Sexton

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

— Kenneth Lacovara

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn.…

— Louis Agassiz

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

— Wendell Phillips

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

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert