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My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. -- Jim Fowler
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. -- James Lovelock
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. -- John Joly
Geological time is not money. -- Mark Twain
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia. -- Ronald Reagan
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.] -- Winston Churchill
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development. -- Daniel Yergin
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. -- Will Durant
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. -- Richard Hammond
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why. -- Tracy Kidder
Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. -- Sarah Parcak
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. -- John Hanning Speke
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. -- David Suzuki
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. -- David Suzuki
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. -- Charles Sturt
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. -- Richard Dawkins
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. -- Edward Forbes
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere. -- David Suzuki
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. -- Robert T. Bakker
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. -- Stephen Jay Gould
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. -- Anselm Kiefer
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons. -- Martin Rees
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period. -- Neil MacGregor
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time. -- Donald Johanson
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil. -- Simon Winchester
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time. -- Simon Winchester
Living matter is the most powerful geological force. -- Vladimir Vernadsky
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. -- Will Durant
All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. -- Ivan Chtcheglov
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress. -- Wendell Phillips
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. -- John Tuzo Wilson
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition, -- Lubov Azria
Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological. -- Tim Winton
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become -- Sheridan Hay
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record. -- Kenneth Lacovara
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. -- M. King Hubbert
As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies. -- Terry Pratchett
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all. -- Richard Lewontin
Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming. -- Harrison Schmitt
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me. -- Darynda Jones
About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. -- William Happer
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. -- George Will
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations. -- William Buckland
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms. -- Charles Lyell
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isnâ??t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planetâ??s random geological savagery. -- Arthur C. Clarke
There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet. -- Kenneth Lacovara
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history -- Manuel De Landa
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context. -- Douglas Coupland
It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality. -- Paul J. Crutzen
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time. -- Wallace Stegner
The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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