“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.” YearsHumansKindPastEnergyHuman BeingsMillionsEnvironmentHappenedRocksCenturyOceanClimate ChangeScalesExperimentsAtmosphereCarbonLarge Scale Author:Roger Revelle
“There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.” KnowsWayArtEarthPerfectSawsRocksCenturyShapesRiversLaysWoundsDescriptionDragonsPassagesQuartersTwistedImitatingIos Book:2010: Odyssey Two Source: 2010: Odyssey Two
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.” ThinkingKnowsPracticeEconomyRocksCenturyBurningAlternatives17th Century Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.” WayHomeEarthBeautifulLyingLeftBeautyGenerationsTreeRocksCenturyHugeCreaturesRootsPopulationHillsFascinatingFarmersPigsPullingGreyCemeteryTrunksTombstoneUpheavalFloraTentaclesDead Trees Author:Phillip Adams
“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.” RocksCenturyColorDelicatePaleWardrobe18th CenturyUnderwater Author:William Manchester
“Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.” LastsAmericaNationsDemocracySeaRocksCenturyWindRootsSeedsRage Author:George W. Bush