It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door–it was my earliest and only geological aspiration at that time.
- Charles Darwin
Did you know that before he became a naturalist and the father of evolutionary theory, Darwin was taken in by geology?
Read more: Darwin the Geologist
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