"The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans."

--

Source : James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.371

James Dwight Dana

#Ocean Quotes #Earth Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”
“The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.”
“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”
“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.31, Profile Books
“We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.”
“My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.”
“And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.”
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

You may also like:

Asa Gray
Botanist
Charles Lyell
Lawyer
Eduard Suess
Geologist
Georges Cuvier
Naturalist
James Hutton
Geologist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Science writer
John Tuzo Wilson
Geologist
Louis Agassiz
Geologist
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
American Politician