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I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.

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Georges Cuvier

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Animal, Land, Connections, Object, History
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The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

Feet, Higher, Mountain Ranges, Moving, Shell, Solid

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.

Darkness, Existence, Infancy, Men, Revolutions, Science

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Force, Forces, Listens, Observation, Observer, Science

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Birth, Earth, Fossils, Gave, Science

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

Fossils, Littles, Necessary, Neglected, Understanding, Work
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