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Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally intere...

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Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h...

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene cras...

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John McPheeAnnals of the Former World

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tunin...

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In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now,...

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Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretchi...

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion th...

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Stephen Jay GouldAn Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but i...

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That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...

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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open...

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A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen expose...

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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

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Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was suffic...

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It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes s...

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Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

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David BrewsterMore Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian