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 convulsions it has suffered.

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

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.

I'll make my own magic

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Serious times require strong leadership.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.