Geology Quote by Richard G. Lillard Download Open image ““Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”” — Richard G. Lillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomy Night Day Astronomy Geology Geology Day Land Geology Nevada Land
“All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks ”stardust” or “caesar’s… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“It was there that I wanted, out there somewhere, when I sat elbow-to-elbow with my giggling friends and let my thoughts swirl up and… — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.” — Chris Robertson Copy Share Image
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day," Jess read aloud, "from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood over the land and everything turn radiant at… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is rugged, rustic country that lays claim to some of the most scenic and awe-inspiring sights in all of North America. While not… — E.R. White Jr Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline.… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
“Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a transverse section… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
![“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth,"…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a7/anonymous-1_communication_in-geology-as-in-history-the-material-in_22470.jpg)
