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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.
John Muir
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The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
John Muir
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Nature is never finished.
Robert Smithson
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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
John Muir
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If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting but it's not a video game.
Richard Alley
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You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.
Charles Darwin
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
John Hickenlooper
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It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved that the subject was in the air, or that men's minds were prepared for it. I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.
Charles Darwin
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
Herbert Hoover
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Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Charles Darwin
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I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
John Hickenlooper
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The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.
William Whewell
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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
Lydia M. Child
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But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.
John Muir
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
John Muir
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Jack Horner
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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
Herbert Hoover
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Lydia M. Child
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Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
William Whewell
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
Carl Linnaeus
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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God but everything is capable of becoming good.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
Robert Ballard
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
John Hickenlooper
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