Famous quotes containing the words gray and/or fossil:
“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)