Because Quote by Robert Duncan

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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 record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

— William Jennings Bryan

The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe…

— David Suzuki

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four…

— Richard Dawkins

“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down…

— Lawrence Millman

The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human…

— Eduard Suess

Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands…

— E. Lee Spence

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of…

— John Burroughs

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views…

— John Joly