Earth Quote by James Dwight Dana Download Open image “The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.” — James Dwight Dana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earth Facts History Nature Ocean Prove
We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Oceans today represent only about 0.02 percent of Earth’s total mass, while the atmosphere is no more than one part per million of its… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a… — John L. Culliney Copy Share Image
“As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean’s grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed and unchanged,” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The world's oceans are not only alive with life, but they are also alive with life.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith. — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed,… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth.… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same through all… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves,… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image