Georges Cuvier Quotes

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • Beauty
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• I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mountains
  • Warm
  • Wood

• In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • House
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• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
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  • Places

• I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Been
  • Which
  • Waters

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • Romantic

• Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Fall

• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Style

• It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Calm
  • Silent
  • Waters

• If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Risk
  • Unknown
  • Waters

• Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Mountains
  • Assumed

• He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Realities
  • Tragic Plays

• When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Walking
  • Japanese
  • Mountains

• Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Part
  • Mountains
  • Skies

• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Writing
  • Coffee
  • Covered

• I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

  

  Richard Clare Danko The Band
  • Mountains
  • Foothills
  • Catskills

• Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Husband
  • Professional
  • Economic

• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Fans
  • Grew Up
  • Talented people

• Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

  

  John Milton
  • Flower
  • Paradise
  • Immortal

• Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

  

  Georges Cuvier
  • Mountains
  • Covered
  • Waters