I found a poem by Lindley Williams Hubbell. I hope it's ok to post an excerpt of it here. Rather a lovely poem about fossils. Captures the wonder.
.............. But these
Exquisite fern-like forms
Printed on the rock,
these fragile plants that have
survived the storms
Of some odd billion years
Move me almost to tears
So I come here often
to see these delicate stems
Breathed on rock like frost
crystals on a window,
But permanently
But forever.
This rock is my favourite book,
my favourite picture,
my dependable scripture,
My sense of wholeness, a
billion years at my elbow.
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