Chalk Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up…

— Henry Grunwald

“The tide goes out imperceptibly. The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and…

— John Steinbeck

“All food available in the depths of the ocean is animal matter, and the food chain depends upon the constant rain of minuscule particles…

— Richard Ellis

And you who rise proud from between the stones Have made oceans from this dust

— Rose

We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been…

— Steve Squyres

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of…

— Joseph Hall

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects…

— Sylvia Earle

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material…

— Georges Cuvier

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance…

— Agostino Scilla

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

— Steven Wright

“Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.”

— Alain de Botton