All time Quote by John Burroughs

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history. In the…

— Edward Abbey

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

— Augustus William Hare

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

— Bertrand Russell

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework…

— Reinhold Messner

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that…

— Anonymous

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as…

— Edward Forbes

The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and…

— Toby Hemenway

The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

— Paul Kantner