Assuming Quote by John Herschel

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried…

— Avicenna

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the…

— Hugh Miller

Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ideal to pre-serve fossils are sedimentary rocks: limestones, sandstones, silt-stones, and shales. Compared with volcanic and metamorphic rocks, these are formed by more gentle…

— Neil Shubin

Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger…

— Thomas George Bonney

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials…

— John Playfair

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the…

— Antony Gormley

The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of…

— John Burroughs

“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary…

— Annie Dillard

Our aim is to open access to a wealth of previously unexplored mineral resources on lifeless rocks hurling through space, without damaging natural habitats.

— Etienne Schneider

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the…

— Richard Whately