Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.