Action Quote by James Hutton

The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about…

— Adam Sedgwick

The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today,…

— Horace-Benedict de Saussure

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

— Aristotle

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions…

— William Buckland

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

— Hugh Elliot

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty…

— Edgar Guest

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as…

— Fred Hoyle

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

— Paulo Coelho

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as…

— Stephen Kinzer

History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton