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

Hans Cloos
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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

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