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.

- 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,…

- 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…

- Hugh Miller

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

- 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…

- Hugh Miller

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

- Hugh Miller

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

- Hugh Miller