Character Quote by Roderick Murchison

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

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history…

— Charles Darwin

Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we…

— Dalai Lama

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

— Kenneth Lacovara

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon…

— Adam Sedgwick

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the…

— Andre Gide

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

— Dominic Holland

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has…

— Helen Bosanquet

As an out gay Gen Xer who has watched successive generations come out earlier and earlier, I am in awe of the ease with…

— Jonathan Capehart

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

— Francis Galton

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began…

— Peter York

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological…

— Anonymous