• We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

    Adam Sedgwick: We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
    William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183