Hans Cloos famous quotes

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.
-- Hans Cloos

#Ideas #Years #Earth

For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.
-- Hans Cloos

#Sleep #Past #Men

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
-- Hans Cloos

#Earth #Modesty #Enough

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.
-- Hans Cloos

#Effort #Path #Ends

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.