Quotes of Geology - somelinesforyou

“ We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Every landscape appears first of all as a vast chaos … . demonstrate that understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another; that the true reality is never the most obvious; and that the nature of truth is already indicated by the care it takes to remain elusive… … ”

- Claude Levi Strauss

“ Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle
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