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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Change
Civilization
Without
Geological
Subject
Exists
Notice
Consent
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.
Alan Stern
History
Long
Half
Active
Numerous
Scale
Would
Pluto
Examples
Small
Fact
Like
Massive
Geological
Still
Years
Off
Expected
In Fact
Planet
Planets
Across
Billion
Cool
Showing
Activity
Four
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
James Lovelock
Change
Year
Changing
Our
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Seeing
Lifetimes
Takes
Also
Climate
Geological
Years
Just
Happen
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
John Joly
Age
Space
Universe
Our
Earth
Immensity
Part
Does
Geological
Duration
Same
Views
Plays
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Martin Rees
Nature
History
Invention
Earthquakes
Worst
Entered
Weapons
Threats
Over
Come
Perhaps
Most
Geological
Era
Disease
Forth
Us
Now
Floods
Started
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
Simon Winchester
Nature
You
Natural
People
World
Will
Evil
Live
Earth
Risky
Remarkable
Knocked
Employed
Well
Fairly
Occasionally
Well Known
Known
Geological
Off
Get
Any
Intent
Human
Regarded
Happening
Cannot
Place
Which
Shoulders
Reasons
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
Time
Resume
Will
Think
Destroyed
Cosmos
Civilisation
Terms
Geological
Been
Years
Very
Times
Different
Little
Urgently
Us
Many
Millions
Millions Of Years
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins
Time
First
Half
Our
Ancestors
Bacteria
Colony
Most
Geological
Still
Were
Cells
Each
Creatures
Each One
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.
David Grinspoon
History
Earth
Ourselves
About
Part
Geological
Going
Conversations
Interested
Means
View
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
David Suzuki
Scale
Physical
Properties
Part
Untouched
Altered
Globe
Chemical
Geological
Left
Planet
Biological
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
David Suzuki
Technology
Our
Ability
Properties
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Look
Altering
Chemical
Geological
Scientists
Decades
Human
Experts
Us
Warned
Amplified
Biological
Numbers
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
Edward Forbes
Time
Knowledge
Space
Organic
Our
Definite
Moreover
Remains
Well
Geographical
Geological
Repeated
Existence
Centralization
Us
Teaches
Species
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
Jim Fowler
Father
Soil
Geological
Scientist
Survey
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
John Hanning Speke
Work
Rest
Collections
Besides
Troublesome
Most
Making
Geological
Diary
Which
Sketching
Keeping
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
Richard Hammond
Time
Disappointment
First
Scale
Driving
Failing
First Time
Geological
Test
'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.
Sarah Parcak
Past
Cities
High
Archaeology
Structures
Features
Geological
NASA
Discover
Commercial
Use
Satellite
Map
Resolution
WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.
Sarah Parcak
You
Differences
Wavelength
See
Allowing
Geological
Very
Sites
Goes
Subtle
Resolution
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.
Simon Winchester
Time
Broken
Remember
Minded
Earth
Those
Prompt
Invariably
Simply
Stern
Most
Withdrawn
Geological
Subject
Times
Forget
Any
Northern
Quite
Chilling
Holds
Which
Japan
Mankind
Us
Homes
Lives
Consent
Bones
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
Stephen Jay Gould
Life
Time
Generation
Natural
Own
Field
Changes
Adding
Immensity
Darwinian
Strongly
My Own
Through
Selection
Major
Geological
Up
Tiny
After
Transformations
Explained
Produced
Natural Selection
Successive
Premise
Challenged
The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.
Sue Hubbell
Old
Past
Mountains
Worn
Geological
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
Tracy Kidder
Important
Believe
Think
Though
Exactly
About
Features
Clear
Geological
Enduring
Why
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