A Quote by Mikhail Lomonosov

In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased.

Mikhail Lomonosov

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Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian - Writer
November 19, 1711 - April 15, 1765

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James Hillman

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Ruskin Bond

Excellent. They were flammable.

James Patterson

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