Geological Time Quotes

• A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Memories, Historical, Stones

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• 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

  Years, Climate, Lifetime

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• 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

  Cells, Bacteria, Firsts

  "La conferencia de Richard Dimbleby: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Conferencia, BBC1 Television, 12 de noviembre de 1996.

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

  Change, Civilization, Existence

  "What is Civilization?". Ladies' Home Journal, Volume LXIII, January 1946.

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• Hay que superar el color verde; hay que dejar de asociar la belleza con los jardines y el césped; hay que acostumbrarse a una escala inhumana; hay que entender el tiempo geológico.

  Wallace Stegner

  Garden, Color, Green

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). "Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West", Random House Value Pub

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• Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. 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

  Ocean, Space, Research

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

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• Aprendemos geología la mañana después del terremoto.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Arte, Mañana, Filosofía

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.2366, Delphi Classics.

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• Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

  Richard Hammond

  Disappointment, Tests, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Change, Country, Valleys

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.34

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• Mi padre era edafólogo en el Servicio Geológico.

  Jim Fowler

  Father, Soil, Scientist

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• The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Sheep, Sea

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• 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

  Taken, Book, Mean

  Fuente: feathertale.com

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• 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

  Looks, Earth, Natural

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.

  John McPhee

  Thinking, Islands, Race

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• They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.

  Arundhati Roy

  Growing Up, Eye, Trying

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.55, Penguin Books India

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• Las civilizaciones han sido destruidas muchas veces, y esta civilización no es diferente. Puede ser destruida. Podemos pensar en el tiempo en términos de millones de años y la vida se reanudará poco a poco. El cosmos opera para nosotros con mucha urgencia, pero el tiempo geológico es diferente.

  Nhat Hanh

  Pensar, Años, Diferentes

  "El zen y el arte de proteger el planeta", por Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. 26 de agosto de 2010.

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• Geological time is not money.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Money

  Mark Twain (194?). "Mark Twain's notebook"

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• The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material, from which they are derived, or in the laws, governing their formation.

  Kurt Gödel

  Law, Atmosphere, Body

  "Nature's Imagination". Book by J. Cornwall, p.161-189, 1995.

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• The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Long, Misunderstood

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 2 - 3, 1987.

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• Mi propio campo, la paleontología, ha cuestionado fuertemente la premisa darwiniana de que las grandes transformaciones de la vida pueden explicarse sumando, a través de la inmensidad del tiempo geológico, los sucesivos y minúsculos cambios producidos generación tras generación por la selección natural.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Generaciones, Paleontología, Campos

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• Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

  Michael Crichton

  Niños, Animales, Años

  Michael Crichton (1997). "El mundo jurásico de Michael Crichton", Alfred a Knopf Incorporated.

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• Los individuos no son cosas estables, son fugaces. Los cromosomas también se barajan en el olvido, como las manos de cartas poco después de repartirse. Pero las cartas sobreviven a la mezcla. Las cartas son los genes. Los genes no se destruyen al cruzarse, simplemente cambian de pareja y siguen adelante. Por supuesto que siguen adelante. Ése es su cometido. Ellos son los replicantes y nosotros sus máquinas de supervivencia. Cuando hemos cumplido nuestra función, nos desechan. Pero los genes son habitantes del tiempo geológico: los genes son para siempre.

  Richard Dawkins

  Manos, Para Siempre, Supervivencia

  Richard Dawkins (2016). "The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition", p.56, Oxford University Press.

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• Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Integrity, Clouds

  Stephen Jay GOULD, Stephen Jay Gould (2009). “Punctuated Equilibrium”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Eggs

  Louis Agassiz (2003). “Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history”

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