For animals and plants, too perishable to endure, have left their stamp behind, and even footprints of past reptiles confront us, legible still on the hardened sands of time, as if made yesterday in the spots they traversed hundreds of centuries ago.


Mars As the Abode of Life, Part I, Chapter II (pp. 44-45), The Macmillan Co. 1908

Percival Lowell Quotes

For animals and plants, too perishable to endure, have left their stamp behind, and even footprints of past reptiles confront us, legible still on...

For animals and plants, too perishable to endure, have left their stamp behind, and even footprints of past reptiles confront us, legible still on...

For animals and plants, too perishable to endure, have left their stamp behind, and even footprints of past reptiles confront us, legible still on...

For animals and plants, too perishable to endure, have left their stamp behind, and even footprints of past reptiles confront us, legible still on...