[Geoinfo] Acerca de los cantos rodados

[Jose Sellés Martínez]

Estimados,

Un pequeño texto del Panditji Nehru dirigido a su hija y muy vinculado a
la Geología.

Saludos,

Pepe

If you see a little round shiny pebble, does it not tell you something?
How did it get round and smooth and shiny without any corners or rough
edges? If you break a big rock into small bits, each bit is rough and has
corners and rough edges. It is not at all like a round smooth pebble. How
then did the pebble become so round and smooth and shiny? It will tell you
its story if you have good eyes to see and ears to hear it. It tells you
that once upon a time, it may be long ago, it was a bit of a rock, just
like the bit you may break from a big rock or stone with plenty of edges
and corners. Probably it rested on some mountain side. Then came the rain
and washed it down to the little valley where it found a mountain stream
which pushed it on and on till it reached a little river. And the little
river took it to the big river. And all the while it rolled at the bottom
of the river and its edges were worn away and its rough surface made
smooth and shiny. So it became the pebble that you see. Somehow the river
left it behind and you found it. If the river had carried it on, it would
have become smaller and smaller till at last it became a grain of sand and
joined its brothers at the seaside to make a beautiful beach where little
children can play and make castles out of the sand. If a little pebble can
tell you so much, how much more could we learn from all the rocks and
mountains and the many other things we see around us?

Jawaharlal Nehru's Letters from a Father to his Daughter



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