Rock Cycle Quotes

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.