"Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have spe- cialized themselves to death." (4/4)

Wow.

"Geologists, dealing always with deep time, find that it seeps into their beings and affects them in various ways. They see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s into the sky.... (3/4)

"On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information. (2/4)

That would be SO COOL

<2 YEARS??!!! That is crazy short on a geologic time scale

More on petrified wood stumps from the World Forestry Center:
worldforestry.org/the-petrifie....

Wicked filming location info via production designer Nathan Crowley in Architectural Digest:
youtu.be/4Qp4tLTrX6A?...

More about fossils & the cliffs of Seven Sisters: www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/seven-sister...

(Of course, I can't speak to whether or not the depositional environment that created these cliffs on earth would have also existed in the land of Oz. If the place has flying broomsticks I doubt uniformitarianism would apply in a traditional sense).