"To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble……" — James Hutton
"To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret."
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James Hutton
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14 Quotes by James Hutton
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is…
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Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as…
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he…
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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to…
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of…
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In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not…
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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers…
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There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in…
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
— Honore de Balzac
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear…
— Henry David Thoreau
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
— Robert South
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.
— Anuj
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may…
— John Ruskin
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