“I set before myself as a boy, and have done my humble part toward building up the great science of paleontology. I shall perish, but my fossils will last as long as the museums that have secured them. My own body will crumble to dust, my soul return to the God who gave it, but the works of His hands, those animals of other days, will give joy and pleasure to generations yet unborn.””
“Even in those early days I used to cut out shells 3from the limestone strata of the region with whatever tools were at hand, but they were admired chiefly as examples of the wonderful power of running water to carve rocks into the semblance of shells.””
“Sometimes it takes on the semblance of a ruined city, with walls of tottering masonry, and only a near approach can convince the eye that this is only another example of that mimicry in which nature so frequently indulges.””
“No man can say he loves us, when he wantonly destroys our work; no man loves God who wantonly destroys His creatures.””
Charles H. SternbergCharles H. Sternberg was an American fossil hunter and paleontologist renowned for his contributions to the field of paleontology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1850, he embarked o...