Deep-time Quote by John McPhee

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

— Emile Chartier

“A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and…

— Carl Sagan

“The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders.”

— Deanna Anderson

“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it?…

— Steven L. Peck

“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the…

— Blake Crouch

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What…

— Carl Sagan

“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a…

— Max Tegmark

“How many millions of times the sentence ‘Life is short’ has been repeated in the human history? But nevertheless we all live as if…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?”

— Daniel J. Rice

“There are about 2.5 billion (10^9) seconds in a human lifetime.”

— Caleb Scharf

“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years is a…

— Michael Crichton