53 Quotes About Fossils



  • Author John Harvey Kellogg
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    It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

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  • Author Richard Leakey
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    When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

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  • Author Bill McKibben
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    Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

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  • Author Bill McKibben
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    We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

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  • Author Mark Norell
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    These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.

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