Fossils Quote by Wallace Stegner Download Open image “We are fossils in the making.” — Wallace Stegner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fossils
“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse 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
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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