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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. John Joly basebuildcollective Change image and share on social
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. John Joly admitbeautifulmagnificent Change image and share on social
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 agedurationearth Change image and share on social
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. Edmund White bookclassepoch Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social