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“We called them theochemists,” Marie said. They stuck out in more ways than one. “They were really straitlaced, they didn’t drink—you’d give them a drink and they’d throw it in a potted plant.” In contrast, other Lamonters, by the close of the rowdy Friday afternoon parties, were much more likely to be found facedown in the potted plants. Kulp”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
“The Earth's plates were moving, and while she didn't know why or how, she did know that the men around her were going to have to catch up.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
“Marie eventually inherited this collection, just as she inherited her father’s acuity for what he called “reading nature.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
“On the geological calendar, all of recorded history takes place during the last four seconds of New Year's Eve. 12:59:56, 12:59:57, 12:59:58, 12:59:59. When scaled down, everything humans know about anything, everything we love, everything we've made - condensed into four seconds. We come and go in the amount of time it takes to uncap a bottle of water and take a sip, sign on the dotted line, or fasten a seat belt.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
“Later, when she wakes up, the sun has set and the light in the car is violet and jade. Her mouth is dry as cotton and she lets her face fall toward the window. And there they are, behind her: not mountains, not really, just some fog-shrouded cardboard cutouts retreating in the distance. “One of the most colossal disappointments in my whole life,” she called them, more than fifty years later. “Not a goddamn mountain in sight.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
