The Black Rose

PART II

“This summer I traveled through northern Arizona and southern Utah. In this land, the rivers have carved great gorges, and on the sheer cliffs of these gorges, one can read a billion years of the history of the earth. On that immense scale, a foot represents the passage of 100,000 years all of man’s recorded history took place as an inch was deposited all of organized science a few millimeters, of genetics a few microns.”

---Robert Shinsheimer, 1966