"Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such……" — James Dwight Dana
"Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet."
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11 Quotes by James Dwight Dana
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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought…
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to…
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him…
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Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the…
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and…
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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it…
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more,…
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral…
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more…
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More Immensity Quotes
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
— Honore de Balzac
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One thought fills immensity.
— William Blake
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our…
— Carl Sagan
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Intensity builds immensity
— Kevin Levrone
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious…
— Rajneesh
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged…
— Jacques Monod
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part;…
— Charles Lapworth
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
— Giordano Bruno
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Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does…
— Unknown Author
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