“Geologic time includes now.”
“I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.”
“The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.”
“Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”
“That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”
“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.”