Traveling Through Time
Peter Bellinger Brodie
"Fifty years ago Geology was in its infancy; there were but few who cultivated it as a science…If an unfortunate lover of nature was seen hammering in a stone quarry, he was generally supposed to be slightly demented."
Stephen Jay Gould
"Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied."
John McPhee
"When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone."