Became Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

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

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of…

— Bruce Babbitt

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

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia…

— David Guterson

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

— Janet Yellen

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Rosa Luxemburg

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to…

— Octavia Butler

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

I am a geologist.

— Robert Ballard

I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah,…

— Terry Tempest Williams