Earth Quote by Hans Cloos

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led…

— Granville Penn

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

[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

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting…

— Jim Jarmusch

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

— Cole Sprouse

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

— Goldwin Smith

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute…

— Humphry Davy

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

— Rosa Luxemburg