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Limestone Quotes by John McPhee
- If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.…
- When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
More Limestone Quotes
- Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch
- On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman,… — William Butler Yeats
- We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories.… — David B. Haight
- My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great… — Bruce Sterling
- The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a… — Jeremy Jackson
- Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star.… — Chris Martin
- You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the… — Peter Zumthor
- It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen