Eduard Suess quotes
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“The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.”
-- Eduard SuessSource : Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”
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“[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.”
-- Eduard SuessSource : Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”
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“If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.”
-- Eduard SuessSource : "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.
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