Quotes about Geology

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Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado R — Keith Meldahl, Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to m — Keith Meldahl, Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a tim — John McPhee, Basin and Range
May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use — William Dean Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these question — R.W. van Bemmelen
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-André de Luc
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty. — Hans Cloos, Conversation with the Earth
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the — Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteris — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracke — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. — W.H. Auden
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the — J. Tuzo Wilson
We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to re — Jean-André de Luc
I have always felt insignificant while thinking in-terms of Deep time, I have always dreaded the fact that however much — Allan Amanyire
As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, a — Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos, You Are the Universe
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw — Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Volume 3
A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far — Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard