James Hutton Quote

Let us, therefore, open the book of Nature, and read in her records, if there had been a world bearing plants, at the time when this present world was forming at the bottom of the sea.

Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations (Volume 1), Chapter I, Section IV (pp. 177-178)

Let us, therefore, open the book of Nature, and read in her records, if there had been a world bearing plants, at the time when this present world...

Let us, therefore, open the book of Nature, and read in her records, if there had been a world bearing plants, at the time when this present world...

Let us, therefore, open the book of Nature, and read in her records, if there had been a world bearing plants, at the time when this present world...

Let us, therefore, open the book of Nature, and read in her records, if there had been a world bearing plants, at the time when this present world...