Hans Cloos Quotes

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It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea that geology is the music of the earth.

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The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end.

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The earth is large and old enough to teach modesty; and yet it is small enough to be comprehended and to be learned from, as our understanding of it increases.

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The earth gives us more knowledge of ourselves than all the books, because it resists us.

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A subterranean landscape is the ramified labyrinth of crevices and caves, of pores and seams, through which the trolls and earth-sprites climb up and down.

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Giant smoking volcanoes stand in a row like the pipes of a cosmic organ through which the mighty breath of the earth blows its roaring music.

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However silent, these large, simple shapes have a wordless language. They say that the granite has grown in secure and secluded depths, guided wholly by its own laws; and that no disturbing outside influence has intervened in the slow tranquil growth of the crystals.

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By far the most important books for geology students were the quarries and clay pits, the cliffs and creek beds, the road and railroad cuts in woods and fields. Our words and letters were the imprints of plants and animals in stone, the minerals and crystals, and our vast inexhaustible, incorruptible, and infallible library was nature itself.

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I became a geologist forever by seeing with my own eyes: THE EARTH IS ALIVE.

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