Time Quote by Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

— Havelock Ellis

“I'm a fan of the volcanic imagination. It bubbles and boils below the surface; it rumbles. When it erupts, continents are born.”

— C. Alexander London

“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Its crust has repeatedly broken up, moved around, melted, and reformed.”

— Bill Nye

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

— Fidel Castro

“Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.”

— Toba Beta

“History is subject to geology.”

— Ariel Durant

“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…

— Steven Galloway

“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

“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake of excusing…

— Ashim Shanker

“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth…

— James Luceno