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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.
— Julian May
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
— Ellsworth Huntington
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lunar Geology Rocks.
— Homer Hickam
Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
— Margaret Atwood
Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.
— Rebecca Solnit
Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
— William Stone
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
— George Poulett Scrope
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
— Marianne Wiggins
Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
— Jean-Andre De Luc
Geology is intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as history is to the moral. An
— Charles Lyell
Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!
— Rick Riordan
Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
— J.G. Holland
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.
— Edward Greenly
Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night
— Richard G. Lillard
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
— Jon Krakauer
The science of the earth ... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.
— John William Dawson
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.
— John Herschel
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.
— Bonnie Bassler
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
— Roderick Murchison
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
— Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
— Adam Sedgwick
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
— William Buckland
If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.
— William Dean Hamilton
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
— Henry David Thoreau
