Life Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of…

— D.H. Lawrence

“She had had the idea that the mineral world was a world of perfect, inanimate forms, with an unchanging mathematical order of crystals and…

— A.S. Byatt

“The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry,…

— Djuna Barnes

“In his bones he manifests almost in the form of mineral life, in fact, in his bones, body and blood mineral substances actually exist.”

— Yogi Ramacharaka

“something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a…

— Mike McCormack

“Her mind made great, panicked leaps between the mundane—He smells pleasantly of soap and witch hazel—and the practical: How could another human being weigh…

— Jenn Bennett

“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections…

— Mark Doty

“Incarnate ugliness, and yet alive! What would become of them all? Perhaps with the passing of the coal they would disappear again, off the…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering…

— Hermann Hesse

“Nature offers splendor and artistry for us to appreciate. Opening our senses reveals we are surrounded by magnificence.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed into the…

— Anthony Stevens

“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!”

— Soumya V