...be our emblem of fragility, 8 hi .Memoriiini, 123: 'The hills arc shadows, and they flow / From torm to form, and nothing stands; / They melt like mist,...lands, / Like clouds they shape themselves and go'. a being redolent of a vanished era of human-scale agriculture and of a remote time when the primary associations...

...Evolution of opes The hills are shadows, and they flow From form lo form, and nothing stands; They me1t like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. LORD TENNYSON In Memoriam Divergent Views of Hillslope Evolution The evolution through time of the...

...Library; bMS Am 1691.14 (30), pp. 19-10). Silence has some affinity with Tennyson, In Memoriam cxxm 3—4: There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. Lyndall Gordon (Eliot's Early Years, p. 3 5) and John Mayer (T. 5. Eliot's Silent Voices, p. 56) suggest...

..."The Ancient Mariner": There rolls the deep where grew the tree, O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. (Lines 1-4) Lyell himself never provides such a lucid evocation of the emotional impact of uniformitarianism....

...the West. " Nothing is permanent," was the fundamental tenet of both philosophers. " The hills arc shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mists, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." All is transitory, the earth beneath...

...of cosmic process:" There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes thou hast seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. 12 Adams often quoted Edward Carpenters similar lines: "The rocks flow and the mountain shapes flow,...

...Origin of Ocean Basins There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. —Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 navigator ritical thinking on the web -V 1^ math tutor on...

...though at different speeds. Even the once-stable mountains began to move, as Tennyson (1850) wrote: The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go Within the framework of this dynamisation of natural history it was no longer possible to see an opposition...

...knack of changing their appearance when viewed from different places or even in different weather. The hills are shadows and they flow From form to form and nothing stands, They melt like mists; the solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go. From this vantage point, what we saw...

...deep where grew the tree'. And in the same stanza, Tennyson recalls once more the eternity of time: The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. It was not Tennyson, though, but Dickens who, in the 18505, arguably had the last word on uniformitarian...