Geological Time

Famous quotes containing the words geological time, geological and/or time:

    “Geological time is not money.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “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 (1803–1882)

    “Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that children are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents’ needs—for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone—are being met.”
    —Wendy Coppedge Sanford. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, introduction (1978)