The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum..

If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. An….

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone..

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life.

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sa….

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between..

On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. ….

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research..

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason..

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning..

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you ….

On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the un….

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone..

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another ….

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the wa….

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning..

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consci….

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness.

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not abou….

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the onl….

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything..