Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, "keep a thing long enough and you will find a use for it.


Collected Essays (Volume 8), Discourses, Biological and Geological, On the Formation of Coal (p. 159)


Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, keep a thing long enough and you will find a use for it.

Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, keep a thing long enough and you will find a use for it.

Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, keep a thing long enough and you will find a use for it.

Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, keep a thing long enough and you will find a use for it.