Great Rachel Carson quote, via Kate Orff (@KateOrff Twitter):
The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth. When we are wise enough, perhaps we can read in them all of past history. For all is written here. In the nature of the materials that compose them and in the arrangement of their successive layers the sediments reflect all that has happened in the waters above them and on the surrounding lands. The dramatic and catastrophic in earth history have left their trace in the sediments–the outpourings of volcanoes, the advance and retreat of the ice, the searing aridity of desert lands, the sweeping destruction of floods. –Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, 1951.
