Edwin H. Colbert Quote

The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the year back through time the earth and its inhabitants seem to us less real and less substantial the more distantly they are removed from this age in which we live.


The Age of Reptiles, Chapter 1 Time, Tetrapods and Fossils (p. 1)


The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the...

The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the...

The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the...

The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the...