Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Pow…

- William Buckland

The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolut…

- William Buckland

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National an…

- William Buckland

Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be view…

- William Buckland

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsio…

- William Buckland

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

- William Buckland

It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginnin…

- William Buckland

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire seri…

- William Buckland

To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant ca…

- William Buckland