Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its… - Hugh Miller
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its…
- Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in th… - Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in th…
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea,… - Hugh Miller
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea,…
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. - Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is i… - Hugh Miller
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is i…
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent. - Hugh Miller
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simpl… - Hugh Miller
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simpl…
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. - Hugh Miller
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. - Hugh Miller
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
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