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Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

— J. G. Holland

[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

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that…

— Anonymous

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— 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

There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the -…

— George W. Bush

Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and…

— David Holmgren

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the…

— William Buckland

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

— Will Durant

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

— John Berger