The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent. Henry Gee
... the republic of creative minds: each giant calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time. And undisturbed by the wanton noises of the dwarfs that creep past beneath them, their high spirit-converse continues. Friedrich Nietzsche
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. Ralph Waldo Emerson