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“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it…

— John McPhee

“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest…

— Peter Matthiessen

Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in…

— Albertus Magnus

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had…

— John McPhee

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

— Richard Leakey

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

— John Berger

Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until…

— George Leigh Mallory

I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and…

— M. John Harrison

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.

— Torbern Bergman

“The Himalayas grew against the force of Earth’s gravity because of the resilience of crustal rock. But before you get excited about Earth’s mighty…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson