"Annals of the Former World" Quotes
"Annals of the Former World" takes readers on a geological journey across North America, exploring the complex history of the continent's landscape.
science | 720 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time.
Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time.
What I could see was a vast, far-reaching landscape, with low, rolling hills, and far off to the north and east, the ranges of mountains that held the coal.
It is very easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
A low but spreading ridge of mountains runs across the middle of the continent and terminates in the east, as the Appalachians.
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
The summit of Everest is marine limestone.
Geologists are hardly ever able to study the Earth's interior and must infer what they cannot see from what they can.
It is a world of mountains and ice, and it is everywhere in motion.
Geology is the science of two much time.
