Bed Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly…

— Reginald Aldworth Daly

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the…

— Archibald Geikie

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute…

— Humphry Davy

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them,…

— Diane Lane

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

— Charles Kuralt