Archibald Geikie quotes
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“When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.”
-- Archibald GeikieSource : Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9
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“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.”
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“This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.”
-- Archibald GeikieSource : Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.4
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“If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.”
-- Archibald GeikieSource : Sir Archibald Geikie (1905). “The Founders of Geology”
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Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.
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“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe”
Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.
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“A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...”
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“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”
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