Adam Sedgwick Quote

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Letter to William Wordsworth

As quoted in: W. Wordsworth, A Complete Guide to the Lakes, Comprising Minute Direction for the Tourist, with Mr Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the County and Three Letters upon the Geology of the Lake District (1842)


We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.