The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse …

- William Morris Davis

The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be t…

- William Morris Davis

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred …

- William Morris Davis

Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its su…

- William Morris Davis

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that consti…

- William Morris Davis